MA Historial Founda Report

1. ED 601Foundations of Education
2nd Semester AY 2014-2015
The Historical Foundations of Education
by: JOSETTE B. ASENTISTA
MA PE

2. TOPIC OUTLINE
 Ancient Education
 Oriental Education
 Sumerian Education
 Egyptian Education
Jewish Education

3. Ancient Education

4. • Pre-literate societies (before writing)
• Educational Goals: To teach survival
skills,teach group
• Students: Children
• Instructional Methods: Informal,children
imitate adults
• Curriculum: Practice hunting,fishing,songs,
poems,dances
• Agents: Parents,tribal elders,religious leader
• Influence on education:Informal,transmission
of skills
ANCIENT EDUCATION

5. ORIENTAL EDUCATION

6. • CHINA (300 bc-1900 ad)
• Educational Goals: Prepare elites to govern
the empire according
to Confusian principles
• Students: Male of upper classes
• Instructional Methods: Memorization and
Recitation
• Curriculum: Confucian classics
• Agents: Government Officials
• Influence on education:Written examinations
for civil service
ORIENTAL EDUCATION

7. SUMERIAN EDUCATION

8. • Sumerian(2500 B.C.E.)
• Educational Goals: Students were instructed
in literacy botany, zoology,
mathematics,geology
among others.
• Students: It was open to any boy who could
afford it. Boys started schooling at six or
seven and continued for up to 10 years.
• Instructional Methods: Writing and Reading
• Curriculum: practiced polytheism
• Agents: priest
• Influence on education:theocracy- political
and religious leadership is combined
SUMERIAN EDUCATION

9. EGYPTIAN EDUCATION

10. • Instructional Methods: Writing and Reading
• Curriculum: practiced polytheism
• Agents: priest
• Influence on education:
• (300 bc-300bc)
• Educational Goals:To prepare priest according
to scribe for the empire
• Students: Male of upper class
• Instructional Methods: Memorization and
copying texts
• Curriculum: Religion or Technical text
• Agents: Priest and scribes
• Influence on education: Restriction on
educational control to priest elites
EGYPTIAN EDUCATION

11. JEWISH EDUCATION

12. • Educational Goals:comes from the Bible and
the Talmud
• Students: Children
• Instructional Methods: advised parents to
teach their children religious beliefs, law,
ethical practices, and vocational skills.
• Curriculum: Religious
• Agents: Rabbis taught in schools within
synagogues, places of worship and religious
study.
• Influence on education: Western Learning
JEWISH EDUCATION

13. THANK YOU FOR
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