“The People Deserve Better Governance”: Examining the Letters of Filipino High School Students to the Next President of the Philippines

• Main Authors: Wui, Ma. Glenda Lopez, Claudio, Jessica Sandra R., Reyes, Rosselle Trishia M., Reyes, Carl Russel R., Zhang, Jie, Leviste, Enrique Niño P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: civic writing; civic engagement; high school students; civic education; Philippine presidential election
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol24/iss4/4; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1548/viewcontent/RA_203.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study examined the results of the civic writing project “Letter to the Next President of the Philippines,” where grades 9-10 students were asked to write a letter to the next president about social problems that they wanted their future leader to resolve and why. The study analyzed the students’...