The life of Dr Virgilio G. Enriquez


The life of Dr Virgilio G Enriquez
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Dr. Virgilio G. Enriquez was born on November 24,1942 at Santol, Balagtas former Bigaa, Bulacan and Died at the age of 52 years old on the 31st of August 1994. He started teaching in the year 1963 in University of Philippines and in 1965. He started using Filipit Language in teaching Psychology. He left for the United States of America for his post graduate studies. He returned in the Philippine in the year 1970. Dr. Virgilio Enriquez, also known as Dr. E, started the "Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino" where he was also given the title "Father of Filipino psychology/ Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino" to acknowledge all the work we has contributed. Dr. Enriquez got his masteral and doctoral degrees in Social Psychology from Northwestern University. He stated the core values of Sikolohiyang Pilipino is the concept tje concept of "Kapwa" a tagalog word that covers the concepts of both "self" and "others" has been expanded by this students. It resulted in an entire system that seeks to describe the Filipino's sense of being person, and to study the difference of Filipino sense of being from cultures, especially the master cultures. According to Dr. Virgilio Enriquez Filipino Psychology is the fruit of experience, ideas and orientation of Filipinos. He also said that through this study, a Filipino can understand himself and in return, be able to improve his life even more. This Article was published by Rath Felder, that was posted in the wikipedia 2 months ago. The following information was gathered from Ms. Katrin De Guia from Anvil, Publishing Incorporation in the year 2005. The information about his school history was from UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Department of Psychology.


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