Pantayong

Pananaw
By Zeus Salazar
•Pantayong Pananaw is a discourse within the indigenous
tradition that was developed by Dr. Zeus Salazar, a
History professor from the History Department of
University of the Philippines Diliman and considered as the
Father of the Pantayong Pananaw.
•He developed the Pantayong Pananaw discourse as a
response to the westernized perspective of the study of
Philippine history and historiography.
• Considered as the most theoretically advanced and productive in
terms of the number of research outputs on the indigenization of
the social sciences, the Pantayong Pananaw introduces a
communication-based theoretical innovation on the study of
Philippine Historiography.
•This new model in historiography refers to the normative
speaking context within which scholars in the movement
seek to help forge a national discourse on civilization.
• Pantayong Pananaw came from the words pantayo and pananaw.
The term pantayo was derived from the root word tayo which
means we, the plural form of the first person pronoun and the
prefix pan-which means for.
• While pananaw means perspective in English. Understood as a
single term, Pantayong Pananaw means A For-Us Perspective .
•In 2003, Ramon Guillermo translated Pantayong Pananaw
as a from-us-for-us perspective. “In this new translation,
the perspective emphasizes that the cultural notion is not
only the subject and goal of discourse but it is also the
source of it.” -Mendoza, 2007, p. 268
•Salazar used tayo as basis for the theoretical base of the
perspective and not the pronoun kami because according to
Salazar, the ‘latter refers to “we as speaking to others“
as opposed to the former which means we speaking among
ourselves.
•The Pantayong Pananaw introduces a "closed circuit of
interaction”,a context where discourse ,is carried on by and
among Filipinos, without the inclusion or interference of
outside participants or dominant perspectives who are
unwelcoming to Filipino interests
•Through this perspective, Filipinos can communicate freely
through the use of their own concepts, language, thought
patterns, manner of relating, and interests.
• 1. Who developed the "Pantayong Pantayong Pananaw means _______.
Pananaw"? • 9. In 2003, Ramon Guillermo translated
• 2. Dr. Zeus Salazar, a History professor Pantayong Pananaw as a ________.
from the History Department of • 10. The word 'kami' refers to ______.
__________. What university?
• 11. The word 'tayo' refers to ______.
• 3. Yhe Pantayong Pananaw introduces
a ______ theoretical innovation on the • 12. The Pantayong Pananaw
study of Philippine Historiography. introduces a _______,a context where
discourse ,is carried on by and among
• 4-5. Pantayong Pananaw came from Filipinos
the words?
• 13-17. Through this perspective,
• 6. The term pantayo was derived from Filipinos can communicate freely
the root word ____ which means we. through the use of their own ??
• 7. While pananaw means __ in English.• 18-20. ESSAY What is Pantayong
• 8. Understood as a single term, Pananaw
• Zeus Salazar
• University of the
Philippines Diliman
• Communication-based
• Pantayo & pananaw
• tayo
• perspective
• A For-Us Perspective
• from-us-for-us perspective
• we as speaking to others
• we speaking among
ourselves
• closed circuit of interaction
• concepts, language,
thought patterns, manner
of relating, and interests
• Pantayong Pananaw is a
discourse within the
indigenous tradition.