The Founders

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A. THE CHAIRMAN

FR. EDMUNDO MARTINEZ and INGENIUM SCHOOL

It was from deep personal conviction and depth of theoretical understanding that Fr. Edmundo M. Martinez, now fully involved in the school, encouraged Dr. Salve B. Borlagdan, Ph.D.,  to embark on the enterprise of starting a school for basic education in 2000. As his bio-data below shows, the lifelong concern of Fr. Martinez’s studies focused on the process of knowing. Already, his first M.A. in Manila was on the thought of the Canadian Jesuit-Philosopher, Bernard Lonergan, whom Time Magazine, in its cover feature of 20 April 1970, decribed as “considered one of the finest philosophic thinkers of the twentieth Century”, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944048-1,00.html

His post-graduate studies at Oxford University, England, focused on the same question of how one knows or learns, followed by a second M.A. degree from Innsbruck University (Austria) in the same area of knowing, this time in the discipline of theology. After ordination to the priesthood in 1970, he finally went to Toronto to do his doctoral degree under the influence of Bernard Lonergan himself. Beyond the theoretical understanding that Lonergan has so carefully and painstakingly worked out in his writings (particularly Insight, A Study of Human Understanding and Method in Theology), Fr. Martinez asks and tries to answer this question: Granted that self-knowledge and, therefore, conversion to the Truth, to the Good, and to Christ, is a lifelong personal achievement, still, how can one arouse, nurture, develop, and support such personal effort of the individual?

His committed involvement to Ingenium is an attempt to answer the question. If it is true that the early formation of the child is critically important for the kind of mature person one becomes, then basic education is part of the answer. The work of basic education that takes place in Ingenium School, then, becomes not only an undertaking in academic formation, but the total formation of the individual focused on what truly matter: awareness and experience, intelligence and truth, choice and responsibility, love.

Fr. Martinez was formed through and through in the Jesuit tradition of education and he himself helped sustain and develop that tradition.  With sharpened focus, Fr. Martinez seeks to realize the truth of the Jesuit educational maxim in Ingenium: "Give me a child for his first seven years and I'll give you the mature person."

In Ingenium, therefore, Fr. Martinez finds the happy synergy of his lifelong theoretical concerns, his commitment to change things for the better through action, and his priestly mission to proclaim and share the love of Christ.

BIO-DATA OF

EDMUNDO MONTOYA MARTINEZ

PERSONAL

Born                6 December 1936, Manila, Philippines

May, 1958        Entered the Society of Jesus, Philippines

June, 1970      Ordained priest in the Society of Jesus, Philippines

2006               Applied for incardination in the Diocese of Antipolo

 

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL

1985-1986         Masters in Public Administration as Mason Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,   Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1970-1976         Doctorate in Theology (D. Th.), University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Canada. Specialized in Bernard Lonergan’s works. Thesis: “Augustine’s Doctrine of Sign and the Sacramental Character of Redemption.”

1969-1970         Master of Arts (M.A.) in Theology and Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), Leopold Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Austria.  Thesis: “Method as Interiority in Theology as Science.”

1967-1969         Master of Arts (M.A.) in Theology and Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), Loyola School of Theology, Quezon City, Philippines

1966-1967         Post Graduate Studies in Philosophy as a British Council Scholar, at Oxford University, England

1961-1963         Master of Arts (M.A.) in Philosophy and Licentiate in Philosophy (Ph.L.), Berchmans College (Jesuit Scholasticate), Philippines. Thesis: “The Symbolic Function in the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer.”

1959-1960         Language and Classical Studies, Latin and Greek, Berchmans College (Jesuit Scholasticate), Philippines.

1954-1959         Bachelor of Arts (A.B., major in Humanities), Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

University Distinctions:

First Honors and Cum laude

“ Aegis Award” , in  recognition of exemplary work as Editor-in-Chief of the College Yearbook.

“Sodality Award”, in recognition for exemplary leadership as President of the student spiritual organization, The Sodality of Our Lady.

 

1950-1954         Graduated from High School,  Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

High School Distinctions:

First Honors and Valedictorian

1950              Graduated from the Gradeschool, Ateneo de Manila University

 

 

MANAGEMENT POSITIONS HELD

2005-2006       Associate Dean, Center for Development Management, and full-time faculty, Asian Institute of Management. Manila

2004-Present   Chaplain, Asian Institute of Management, Makati, Manila

2004-Present   Chairman, Philippine Educational Trust Plans, Inc. and PETLink, Inc.

2000-Present   Chairman, Ingenium  Learning Resources Foundation, Inc., Marikina City

1993-2004       President, Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City

1993-2001       President and Chairman of the Board, Davao Medical School Foundation, Inc.

1993-1996       Vice-President, Davao Association of Colleges and Universities

1997-1998       Treasurer, Davao Association of Colleges and Universities

1994-2004       Chairman, Local Resource Partnership (with Canadian International Cooperation Agency, CIDA).

1991-2003       Vice-Chairman, Philippine Educational Trust Plans, Inc.

1991-1994       Founding Member and Executive Director, Ateneo-Bankers Association of the Philippines Institute of Banking

1986-1993       Executive Vice-President, Ateneo de Manila University,  and in concurrent positions:

• Dean, Graduate School of Business, Ateneo de Manila University
• Executive Director, Ateneo Computer Technology Center (from 1982)
• Vice President for Planning and Development (from 1979)
• Director of Alumni Affairs, Ateneo de Manila University (from 1979)

1983-1993       Vice-Chairman. Faura Science Research Center, Inc. and Executive Director from 1979-1983

1979-1980       Director of Jesuit Pre-Theologians

1976-1979       Professor, Loyola School of Theology (Christology, Grace, Trinity, Theological Synthesis Course, and Theology of Development)

1972-1975       Lecturer, University of Toronto Extension Program, Toronto, Canada

1963-66           College Instructor, Ateneo de Manila University (Latin and Greek Classics, Composition, Rhetoric, Introduction to Literature)

1958-63           Catechist, Elementary and High School

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B. THE PRESIDENT

 

SALVE B. BORLAGDAN, Ph.D.

 

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BIO-DATA OF

SALVE BARRAMEDA BORLAGDAN, PhD

 

PERSONAL

Born              27 September 1955, Manila, Philippines

Hometown     Legazpi City, Albay Province

 

EDUCATIONAL

2001-        18 Education units from the Graduate School of Miriam College

1997         PhD in Community Development, University of the Philippines at Los Banos

Awards

• Outstanding Graduate Student in Community Development (1995)
• Ford Foundation scholarship award

1984         M.A. Social Psychology, minor in Community Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University

Scholarship award

• Ateneo Scholarship Foundation

1978         B.S. Psychology, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Scholarship award

• Insular Life Gold Eagle scholarship award

1973         12^th Grade, Marshfield High School, Marshfield, Missouri

Scholarship award

• American Field Service International Exchange Program award

1972         High School, St. Agnes’ Academy, Legazpi City

Award

• Salutatorian

1968         Grade School, St. Agnes’ Academy, Legazpi City

Award

• First Honorable Mention

PROFESSIONAL

2009-Present   Board Member, Marikina Private Schools’ Administrators’ Association (MARIPRISA)

2000-Present   President and Managing Director, Ingenium Learning Resources Foundation, Inc.

2000-2001       Project Director/Research Associate, Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University

1994-1999       Social Development Consultant/Curriculum Development Specialist, Natural Resources Management Program, USAID-Department of

Environment and Natural Resources

1984-1991       Project Director/Research Associate, Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City

Awards

• • • Benguet Corporation Award for Excellence
    • Citibank N.A. Chair Award for Excellence)

OUTPUTS

• Paper presentations at various conferences of the Upland NGO Assistance Committee (UNAC) (200), UPLB College of Forestry (1998), Environmental Research Development Bureau (1996), Philippine Uplands Resources Center (1996), South East Asian Social Forestry Network (1987)
• Papers included in publications of the Environmental Research Development Bureau (1996), Philippine Uplands Resources Center (1996), Philippine Journal of Public Administration (1992 and 1993), Kumarian Press and the Ateneo de Manila University Press (1990),  ODI Social Forestry Network Paper (1981 & 1990), the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University (2001, 2000, 1998, 1989, 1987, 1984, 1982, 1981).
• Technical reports to the USAID-Natural Resources Management Program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (1999, 1997, 1996)
• Training manuals and handbooks prepared with multidisciplinary committees for the Ford Foundation-assisted Upland Development Working Group of the Forest Management Bureau (1989, 1991)
• Ph.D. Dissertation: Small-Scale Community Logging and Community-Based Forest Management (1997).    University of the Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna.
• MA Thesis:  Farmers’  Participation  in  Communal  Irrigation  Development (1984).   Ateneo  de  Manila  University,  .

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

2011         Principles of Curriculum Integration.  Mariam School Aid Plus, Inc.

Academic Ranking and HR Incentive Planning. Center for Global Best  Practices.

Manila World Class Education Conference (13^th Series) on the Singapore Science Curriculum. Edcrisch International.

Best Practices in Crafting HR Policies and Contracts (for Educational Institutions’).  Center for Global Best  Practices.

2010 Singapore Math Training for Parents. Victory Christian International School.

2009 Understanding by Design. Teachers’ Professional Enhancement Program, Mariam School Aid Plus.

2008        Shadow Teaching Special Children in the Regular School. UP College of Education Special Education Area & Childfind Therapy Center.

Teorya, Istratehiya at mga Pakitang-Turo sa Epektibong Pagtuturo ng Filipino. Arczone Professional Development Center.

Emerging Issues in the Mathematics Curriculum. Center for Educational Management.

Teaching Math with the Rainbow Blocks. Math Circle of the Philippines-Asian Psychological Services and Assessment Inc.

Teaching Science Real Good. Science Circle of the Philippines-Asian Psychological Services and Assessment, Inc..

2007        10^th Annual Convention.  “Teaching the Game of High Achievement.  Philippine Association for the Gifted.

Storyline Development and Basic Scriptwriting.  Miriam College Child Study Center.

Teaching Beginning Reading Workshop.  Adarna House, Inc.

2006        Sensory Motor Integration and Cognition. Sanguine Consulting, Singapore.

2005        Dr. Mel Levine:  Educating All Kinds of Minds, Understanding Differences in Learning.  Maximus Inventus.

Children’s Drawing.  Sanguine Consulting, Singapore.

Engaging Children’s Hearts and Minds: The Project Approach.  Sanguine Consulting, Singapore.

Brain Gym. Rizalina G. Ochoa.

Howard Gardner:  Changing Minds..—Teaching & Parenting for the 21^st Century.  Multiple Intelligence International School Foundation, Inc.

2004        20^th World Congress on Reading.  International Reading Association.

Educators’ Workshop.  Phoenix Educational System,s Inc.

2003        Seminar on Legal Matters Concerning Teachers and Students.  Association for Childhood Education International-Philippines.

Balanced Literacy Program in the Pre-School. Sts. Peter & Paul Early Childhood Center, Golden City, Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

Early Childhood Staff Training with Grace Mitchell, PhD.  Sts. Peter & Paul Early Childhood Center, Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

3^rd National Forum on Child Care and Education:  Retooling the Teacher for Creativity in Education. Association for Childhood Education International, Philippines.

2001        Setting Up and Managing Effectively the Preschool Learning Environment.  Ateneo Teacher Center, Ateneo De Manila Univeristy.

1999        Alitaptap Storytelling Workshop.  Alitaptap Storytellers’ Club.

Walking the Reading Tightrope:  Strategies that Balance the Phonetics and Whole Language Approach to Reading. Creative Educators, Inc.