Historical Background of

Curriculum in Philippines
Mark Dave Joven L. Alenton
BS: Electro-Mechanical technology

Ladylou Q. Bation
BS: Business Administration
History of Philippine education &
Relevant Laws
1. Pre-Spanish 1. Post EDSA
2. Spanish  Decree
3. First republic  Commission
4. American  Republic act
5. Commonwealth  Executive order
6. Japanese
7. Third republic
8. New society
The Pre- Spanish era
 INFORMAL

 TRIBAL TUTORS

 FOCUSED ON SURVIVAL

 SHOW AND TELL, IMITATION

Alibata
Spanish
 RELIGIOUS

 TO PROMOTE
CHRISTIANITY

 DICTATION ,
MEMORIZATION
Friars
Establish Parochial schools
linked with churches to teach
catechism to natives.
The educational decree of 1863
❖ Effort by spain to reform the philippine colonial education system.

❖ Required two elementary schools in each municipality( one for the girls and
one for the boys)

❖ Established normal school

❖ Teach subjects. (languages, history, mathematics, philosophy , geography,

psychology.
Philippine revolution

● Illustrados –spearheaded the propaganda movement

○ Secularization of education

○ Instruction of Spanish

○ Greater attention to natural science

○ The design of relevant curriculum

○ Improvement of higher centre of learning

○ Improvement of educational system

Jose P. Rizal

● Disproportionate focus on religion

● Discourage to attempt the filipino students to speak spanish

● Lack of pedagogical skills

● Irrelevant coursed in the curriculum

1st republic
 LOVE OF COUNTRY AND GOD

 LESS RELIGIOUS

 LACKED PEDAGOGY

 SYSTEM FREE AND COMPULSORY

EDUCATION WAS ESTABLISH BY MALOLOS
CONSTITUTION.
Malolos constitution in 1899

❖ Felipe calderon y roca and felipe beuncamino.

❖ Free compulsory elementary education.
American
 Towards democracy

 Use of English

 Formal education

 Establish first public school system

 Debate and games

Shurman Commission (1899)

❖ By united states President william mckinley

on January 20, 1899
❖ Adequate secularize and free public school
system
Taft commission (1900)

❖ Free primary instruction that trained

the people for the duties of the
citizenship.
Act no. 74 (1901)

❖ Centralized public school system

❖ A heavy shortage of the teachers resulted

to the arrival of thomasites
Thomasites
Act . 1870 (1908)

❖ Created the university of the philippines

Important in American education

● Elementary

● Secondary

● College

● Americans disregarded the religion bias

● Eduation act of 1901 – the separation of church and schools
● Encourage filipinos in the field of teaching
● Outstanding filipinos scholars were sent to us to train as teachers.
Commonwealth

 Preparation of independence

 Promotion of nationalism

 Use of Filipino

 CAT
Commonwealth act 578 (1940)

❖ Included teachers, professors and person

charge with the supervision of schools
within the term “ person of the
authority”
Commonwealth Act 586 (1940)

❖ Reduced numbers of years in elementary

(7-6)
❖ Fixed school entrance age at 7 years old
❖ Double single sessions
Japanese
 Love of labor (tech-voc)

 Eradication of dependence of
westerners

 Use of nippongo
3rd Republic

 Social economic development

 Several educational
advancement
Excutive order no. 94 (1947)

• Department of instruction was

change to “department of
education”
Republic act 416 (1949)

• Philippine normal school to

philippine normal college
Republic act 1265 (1955)

❖ Compulsory daily flag ceremony

Republic act 1424 (1956)

❖ Rizal law

❖ Study the life works of rizal

Republic act 4670 (1966)

❖ Magna carta for Public school teachers

❖ Not included public school teachers
New Society
 Department of education & culture
(1972)

 Ministry of education & culture

(1978)

 13 regional offices were created

 Major organizational changes

Presidential decree 1006 (1972)

❖ Department of education and culture

Presidential decree 1006 (1976)

❖ Teaching as professionals and teaching as a profession

❖ Need to pass Pbet (CSC)
❖ PBET by (CSC)
Presidential decree 1397 (1978)

❖ Ministry of education and culture

POST EDSA

 Ministry of education, culture and

sport (1982)

 Department of education , culture

and sports (1987)
Education act of 1982

❖ Also called BP ( BATAS PAMBANSA) 232

❖ Ministry of education , culture and sports
❖ Established and maintain an integrated systeam
of education
Republic act 6655 (1988)

❖ Free public secondary education act

Executive order 117 (1987)

❖ Department of education , culture and sports

Congressional commission on education
(EDCOM) 1994
❖ The commission on higher education (ched) RA 7722
❖ Technical education and skill development (tesda) RA
7796
❖ Teacher professional act ( need to pass LET) PRC
Republic act 7877 (1995)

❖ Anti-sexual harassment act in employment,

education or training environments
Republic act 9155 (2001)

❖ Governance act of education

❖ Change DECS TO DEP-ED
❖ CULTURE TO NATIONAL COMMISSION OF CULTURE AND ARTS
(NCAA)
❖ SPORTS TO PHILIPPINE SPORTS COMMISSION (PSC)
Republic act 10533 (20130

❖ Enhance basic Education

❖ Also called as K-12