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Life of Jose Fadul
Jose Arabe Fadul is a multi-awarded Filipino science education specialist, educational psychologist, academic, teacher, historian, and author known for his works in psychology and other subjects.
In 1995 he was the chair of the Information Science Group of the University of the Philippines National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development when he resigned to work for a private firm dealing with computer services.
In 1998 he joined the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde to teach social science courses and by 2005 he was appointed full professor in the said educational institution. Fadul's severe stuttering since childhood did not prevent him from becoming successful in life.
Furthermore, he had gone through several life-threatening illnesses such as pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, diffuse toxic goiter but overcame them through medication.
Jose Fadul wearing SABLAY
Educational Background
Jose A. Fadul was born in Manila on July 2, 1961, the fifth of six children: four girls and two boys. His mother, the former Saturnina P. Arabe[1] of Binalonan, Pangasinan, was an outstanding public school teacher handling remedial reading while his father, Martin O. Fadul, was a government employee and a free-lance contributor to the Philippine Free Press magazine.
Fadul studied in public schools (Division of City Schools-Manila): G. Lopez-Jaena Primary School, Legarda Elementary School, and Manila Science High School. He obtained his Bachelor in Secondary Education (1983), Master of Arts (1990), and a Ph.D. (1999) degrees from the University of the Philippines, Diliman[2].
He has taught secondary and tertiary education at the Rizal Technological and Polytechnic Institute, University of the Philippines, Los Ba�os, and at his alma mater, the University of the Philippines, Diliman. In 1985 and 1986 Fadul also took up and finished computer programming and other courses at the National Computer Institute of the National Computer Center.
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Fadul as Author
Fadul started writing and editing essays, articles, reviews and experiments for various popular science magazines for elementary and high schools since 1986, but his latter major works were first published by the De La Salle University Press in 2002.
Fadul compiled materials from the worksheets he has been using in teaching the Rizal Course into two eye-opening[4] workbooks: A Workbook for a Course in Rizal and its version in Filipino Sanayang-Aklat sa Kursong Rizal. Later, the C & E Publishing took on his works' succeeding editions.
In 2005, Fadul in the International Journal of Learning[5] published The Learning-Centered Paradigm: a Synthesis of the Curriculum-Centered and Learner-Centered Paradigms and then used the same to write a primer on designing worksheets for classroom use which won him first prize in Teach! Primer Writing Contest sponsored by the Center for Learner-Centered Instruction and Research.
His two other frequently-cited original research articles, Mathematical Formulations of Learning: Based on Ten Learning Principles[6] and Resonant Teaching: Prolonging the Half-Life of the Learning Process were likewise published in the said refereed journal in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
His Government Service
After graduating from college in 1983, Fadul humbly started as a secondary school teacher at the Rizal Technological and Polytechnic Institute (now University of Rizal System), and in the following year, he transferred to the University of the Philippines, Los Ba�os and taught at the University of the Philippines Rural High School.
He moved to the Institute for Science and Mathematics Educational Development (now, National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development) in 1986 and rose from the ranks: from a research associate to researcher to Science Education Specialist, while part-time teaching at the College of Education of the University of the Philippines.
He was involved with projects with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports-Education Task Force (DECS-EDPITAF), Bureau of Non-Formal Education (DECS-BNFE), and most public urban and rural schools. In December 1995 Fadul, together with Milagros D. Ibe, represented the Philippines in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study[8] (or TIMSS[9], later changed to Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study[10]) held in Boston, Mass. Having gotten married early that year, Fadul resigned from government service to work for Eduvision 2000, a private firm dealing with computer services; but he got afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis before getting regularized in his new job.
While recovering, he concentrated on finishing his doctoral dissertation. Although Fadul has moved to the private, sectarian De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde since 1998, he remains in touch with public schools and with his former colleagues at the National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development, occasionally conducting seminars and presenting technical papers.
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