Food Icon ( ) as Basis for Pre-Service Teacher Education Curriculum Restructuring

ABSTRACT: This study aims to gather and analyze the culture of making litson as a food icon as basis for pre-service teacher education curriculum restructuring. It answers the following queries on (1) What makes a delicacy an icon? (2) What makes it an Ethno Malayan practice? (3) What is its implication to the curriculum? It anchored on the Socioliguistic Theory and used a Ethno-graphic design to analyze the gathered data. Based on the data presented, the litson is a food icon because of its taste and uniqueness of the ingredients and people crave because of its acceptable and favorable taste. It is not an Ethno Malayan practice because it is distinctly Filipino and many of the countries that comprise the Ethno-Malayan group are distinctly Muslims. Therefore, there is a need for curriculum restructuring to cater to foreign students and handle different types of learner. The curriculum must have subs-specialization that will cater to the cultures within the Ethno Malayan culture.
KEYWORDS: food icon, litson, curriculum restructuring, pre-service teacher education