Voices and Rhythms of Mindanao: A Technographic Framework for Multilingual Literature, Musical Orality, and Educational Integration

Education in the Philippines continues to face the challenge of integrating cultural heritage into classrooms in ways that are meaningful, policy-aligned, and sustainable. Mindanao’s oral epics, folktales, and musical traditions embody resilience, identity, and collective memory, yet remain at the margins of formal curricula. This study addresses that gap by introducing the Technographic Framework for Multilingual Literature and Musical Orality in Education (TFMLMOE), which connects heritage with curriculum design through artificial intelligence as an interpretive lens. Guided by a qualitative interpretive design that employed corpus construction, sentiment analysis, hybridity mapping, and audio pattern recognition, the research examined cultural materials including the Ulahingan, Tudbulul, Darangen, folktales in Cebuano, Maranao, Chavacano, and English, as well as ritual chants and gong ensembles. The analysis was anchored in Orality-Literacy Theory, Multilingual Hybridity, Ethnomusicology, Digital Humanities and Technography, and Peace Studies with Values Integration, providing a multidimensional lens for interpretation. A total of sixty-five scholarly sources spanning 1975 to 2025 were reviewed; following Creswell and Poth’s (2018) methodological guidance, this breadth ensured saturation of themes and strengthened validity through multiple perspectives. Findings revealed ten themes like oral epics as vehicles of language and values, modern texts as sites of hybridity and identity negotiation, musical orality as collective memory, and artificial intelligence as a means of uncovering hidden cultural patterns. From these findings, the framework is articulated through four components: corpus analysis, cultural preservation, values integration, and curriculum application. It aligns with CHED mandates, MTB-MLE and OBE compliance, UNESCO principles, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. While the study is limited to selected Mindanao communities, it advances scholarship and policy by revitalizing cultural heritage and positioning it as a dynamic resource for pedagogy, resilience, and cultural revitalization.