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NSTP 2: COMMUNITY IMMERSION

The National Service Training Program (NSTP) of the Philippines was promulgated through Republic Act No. 9163 in 2001 and implemented in 2002. The primary aim is to enhance civically consciousness and defense preparedness among higher education and technical-vocational students through the development of the ethics of service and patriotism as expressions of love of people and country in their cognitive and affective learning domains. Designed for both male and female students, as a one-year or two-semester program with a total of six-unit credits, the NSTP is comprised of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Literacy Training Service (LTS), and Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS). As originally designed, it was not explicit that NSTP will be implemented with service-learning as a pedagogical framework, but how it was structured, particularly in LTS and CWTS, there was already space for students to render community service. This is what I notice as the potential of NSTP a potential platform for service-learning but there was no formal link yet between the two. The NSTP is being implemented not exactly following all the principles of service-learning although some may claim they did because students serve the communities through the skills they had learned in school. And that is what this paper wants to pursue: how to enrich NSTP implementation, except ROTC which is outside the scope of this paper because of its military orientation, applying the service-learning pedagogy without getting away from its legal mandate based on the experiences of selected higher education institutions in the Philippines.