This article looks into the value of art education in helping out‐of‐school adolescents to reintegrate to the local community due to armed conflicts in Zamboanga City, Southern Philippines. Using focus group discussion, which was carried out with adolescents living in transitory sites, permanent shelters and informal settlements in the city, findings have revealed that participants in the programme gained knowledge, developed positive attitude and communication skills and practiced peace building behaviours that benefited them, their families and the community at large because of their involvement in the programme. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Mobile dating applications have become self-presentation spaces and stages among the youth. In the search for romance and sexual relationships, young Filipinos create and act out pre and co-constructed selves that enable them to find dating partners. Using the musings and experiences of 50 Filipino young adults who have been using dating apps to search for love or lust, the study found that created mobile/ online selves or faces reflect presentation strategies that include the show of sincerity, dramatic execution of the role, use of personal front, maintenance of control over the information, mystification, idealization, and misrepresentation. The study concludes that self-presentations range from the authentic to the inauthentic portrayal of the self to advance motives and intents in the use of dating apps.

Discourses of development in academic institutions

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The present pandemic enables us to recheck the capacity of the youth to be prepared for various natural and man-made disasters. This study adds to the literature that assesses the current knowledge, perception and mitigation behaviors of the youth about earthquakes. A survey of 300 young individuals from one of the public universities in Manila, Philippines has revealed that young individuals still have high knowledge about earthquakes and the dangers because of earthquakes to themselves and their families. They also seek and share knowledge about the disaster because they perceive it to be a risky situation. Earthquake mitigation behaviors are also part of their disaster preparedness practices. Relationships of these three variables were established. There is, however, a lack of actual dissemination of the earthquake-related knowledge and practices outside the social circles of the youth. It is, therefore, necessary to tap the capacity of the youth in information dissemination and mitigation at a community level.