The Antoninus Journal

15/02/2022

The Antoninus Journal is happy to begin the release of Volume 8. The first article is now available for download:

http://theantoninus.com.ph/archives/75/

Through interview and survey methods, Vanessa Puno researched the effects of social media use on the Christian communication of UST Campus Ministry.

14/08/2021

As quarantine continues and COVID-19 case rates rise, one asks oneself: "Are We Still Sane?" Ian Raymond B. Pacquing of the UST Department of Philosophy ponders on this question in his short essay. Read more on the Antoninus Journal Issue 2021:

http://theantoninus.com.ph/archives/69/

10/07/2021

The Antoninus Journal opens its 2021 issue with a paper on the Tomasian experience and response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Thomasian Education, Timely and Timeless: Our COVID-19 Story" by Prof. CHERYL R. PERALTA, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and a faculty member of the UST College of Rehabilitation Science is available at our official website.

http://theantoninus.com.ph/archives/64/

01/04/2021

The Antoninus Journal welcomes new members to its Editorial Board for 2021.

Complete list can be found in our website

The Antoninus Journal (ISSN: 2423-3084) is a multidisciplinary journal published by the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines). It was first released in February 2015 and is considered as the successor of ad Veritatem, which used to be the official scholarly publicati...

17/02/2021

As described in Paolo Freire’s “Banking system of education,” the traditional teaching method for language instruction consists of one-way transfer of knowledge from teacher to student and a main focus on grammatical instruction. As a response, educators have been developing new dialogic and student-centered approaches to language pedagogy.

Juland Dayo Salayo of the UST Senior High School and Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao of the UST Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCCSSED) discuss how the pandemic has been pushing language teachers to move away from the traditional teacher-centered model in their paper “No walls, no ceilings, no floors: e-dialogic language teaching in basic education during the COVID-19 pandemic”

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12/02/2021

The COVID-19 Pandemic brought unprecedented impact on the system of Higher Education. Academic institutions must depend on distance learning as the primary method of transmitting education due to quarantine. Educators must also come to terms on how to modify their pedagogical methods in the face of this “new normal.”

Allan B. De Guzman of the UST Graduate School and the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED) discusses this phenomenon as well the concept of panicgogy (panic + pedagogy) in his paper “From globalization to COVIDification of higher education: Panicgogy as a clarion to empowering today’s learners.”

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12/02/2021

The ability of the COVID-19 virus to quickly spread within a short period has prompted urgent research effort to develop a vaccine. Co-authors Antonio D. Ligsay; Jacquiline S. Tychuaco; and Grecebio Jonathan D. Alejandro of the UST Graduate School give a short discussion of the current efforts vaccine development in their paper

“Understanding the nature of the COVID-19 virus and its vaccine candidates.”

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12/02/2021

Public Understanding of Science (PUS) refers to the pervading attitudes and knowledge of the public towards scientific concepts. It also refers to the level of the public‘s access to scientific knowledge.

Ernesto Cordero Collo Jr. of the UP Los Baños Graduate School discusses the discipline of PUS in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic in his paper “Science in the time of COVID-19: Creating spaces for engagement towards Public Understanding of Science (PUS).”

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09/02/2021

Journalism is one of the occupations heavily affected by COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting quarantine. Social media platforms are quickly becoming the go-to method of news dissemination by both journalists and government officials.

Felipe F. Salvosa II of the UST Department of Communication and Media Studies and the Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities (RCCAH) discusses the state of Philippine journalism and news broadcast in his paper “The digital new normal: Implications on journalism and journalism practice.”
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08/02/2021

Among the COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, a numerous number have been detected only after the patient had died or died the same day the test result was revealed.

By utilizing Logistic regression analysis and the Kaplan-Meier Curve, Mark Louie F. Ramos of the UST Department of Mathematics and Physics gives an analysis of this phenomenon in his paper “A Short Analysis of Deaths from COVID-19 that Occur Prior to Testing Confirmation in the Philippines.”

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08/02/2021

As quarantine requires restricted movement among members of affected areas, healthcare providers seek alternate ways to provide healthcare. One such method is “telemedicine,” with which a paradigm shift from the traditional methods of healthcare has already begun.

Joshua Macapagal of the UST The Graduate School discusses telemedicine as well as a possible approach to the direction of this paradigm shift in his paper “Completing the Telemedicine Paradigm Shift post-COVID-19.”

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08/02/2021

How have Filipinos coped with limited contact with others during quarantine? With a focus on President Rodrigo Duterte’s April 3, 2020 address, Philippe Jose S. Hernandez of the UST Senior High School demonstrates the potency of social media as a platform of interaction for Filipinos during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Read more in his paper: “Philippine social media during ECQ: socially distanced but not disengaged.”

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