The development of
education in the Philippines
from Pre- Spanish to Present
time

Early 15th Century
Informal Education
OBSERVATION
IMITATION
PRACTICE

Teaching learning Process
Focus On These Aspects
- Behavior
- It engages the oral traditions of implying values
to the children
- Skills
- Involves the practical and hands-on activities
that developed and enhanced the physical
function the children during this period.
- Communication
- Implies the use of traditional way of writing and
reading called Baybayin.

Spanish regime
Religion oriented and
controlled by Roman Catholic
Church.
Spanish friars and missionaries
educated natives through
religion with the aim of
converting indigenous
populations to the catholic
church
Friars learned the local
language
The tagalog Doctrina
Christiana (1593)

. The Educational Decree of 1863
- which required the
establishment of
one primary
school for boys and
one for girls in
each of the major
town in the
country.
- The problems in Education
during the Spanish Period are
the absence of government
supervision, over-emphasis on
religion, limited and irrelevant
curriculum, obsolete teaching
methods, poor classroom
facilities, inadequate
instructional materials,
discrimination against Filipino
students and absence of
academic freedom.

education was used as an
instrument to pacify the natives and
eventually colonizing the island.

0 The Taft Commission
Act No. 74 established
the Philippine public-
school system for free
education and teacher
training.
0 On August 23, 1901, the
first group of American
Teachers arrived in
Manila through the
Thomas ship. The
Thomasites are one of
the first American
teachers.
0 University of the
Philippines was created
in 1908 by the Act No.
1870 by the Philippine
Commission and the
Philippine Assembly. The
establishment of higher
education institution
(HEI) was also
encouraged. Promising
Filipinos were given the
opportunity by the
American government to
pursue higher education
degrees in the United
States.

0 President Quezon
created the National
Council of Education in
1936 as an advisory
body on educational
matters.
0 In the 1983, the National
Assembly enacted a law
providing for the
establishment of
national vocational
schools in different parts
of the country.
0 The Adult Education in
1936 started
0 The National Language
was a made a
compulsory subject in all
schools in the beginning
of school year 1940-
1941.
0 Educational Act of 1940
reduced the elementary
levels from 7 years to 6
years. The minimum age
for Grade 1 was raised to
7. School starts from July
to April.

January 3, 1942, the Japanese Military
Administration issued a proclamation
order No. 2 in 1942 which contained
the 6 basic principles of Japanese
education in the country:

6 Basics Principle
0 Make people understand the position of the Philippines
as a member of the Greater East-Asia Co-prosperity
Sphere
0 ; Eradicate the old idea of the reliance upon the western
nations and to foster a new Filipino culture on the
consciousness of people as Orientals
0 Endeavor to elevate the morals of the people giving up
over emphasis on materialism
0 and Strive for the diffusion of the Japanese language in
the Philippines and to terminate the use of English in
due course.

CURRICULUM
•School calendar
became longer
•No summer
vacation for students
•Deleted anti-Asian
banned the signing
of American symbols,
poems and pictures
•Nohongo as a
means of
introducing and
cultivating love
for Japanese
culture
•Social studies

•In 1974, by the virtue of Executive Order No. 94, the
Department of Institution was changed to “Department of
Education”. During this period, the regulation and supervision
of public and private schools belonged to the Bureau of Public
and Private Schools.

PHILIPPINE BASIC
EDUCATION

•National Elementary School
Curriculum (NESC)
•New Secondary Education
Curriculum (NSEC)
•Revised Basic Education
Curriculum (RBEC)
•Secondary Education Curriculum
(SEC 2010) K to 12
Basic Education Curriculum.
Republic Act 10533 also known
as “Enhanced Basic
Education Act of 2013”, or the K to
12 Curriculum encompasses at
least
•(1) year of kindergarten
education,
•(6) years of elementary education
and six
•(6) of secondary education, in that
sequence.
•Secondary education includes four
(4) years of junior high school
•and two (2) years of senior high
school. The standards of the
curriculum:

REFERENCES:
- https://www.slideshare.net/johnarvin18/historical-
foundations-of-curriculum-in-the-philippines
- https://www.slideshare.net/justingutierrez4/pre-spanish-to-
spanish-regime
ROSALIE N. AROYLA