MATRIX PRESENTATION OF CURRICULUM HISTORY

ERA OR PERIOD
ELEMENTARY SECONDARY TERTIARY
OF
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION
DEVELOPMENT
Pre-Spanish  No system of  No system of  Educators were
Education/struct Education the “Babaylan”
ured curriculum and “Katalonan”
 Knowledge on
Spirituality
 System of
governing their
own society
 Islam religion for
the muslim
communities
Education
 No formal
separate
institution for
education
Spanish Period  Parochial School  Esclesiastical  Spanish
Curriculum Studies with missionaries aim
Classical courses. to control of the
 “atinidades” Filipinos, both
 Curriculum for body and soul
girls  Curriculum (3 R’s)
 Vocational (Reading, Writing
Curriculum and Religion)
 Music Curriculum  The schools were
parochial or
convent schools
 Universities were
mainly male and
affluent members
of the society.
 Main readings
:Catelismo
 Method of
Instruction:
Individual
Memorization
American  3-4 year Primary  2-year and 4-year  Based on the
Regime Curriculum ,2- secondary Ideas on the
year Normal curricula Ideals and
 Intermediate introduced in traditions of
Curriculum central high America and
 Vocationalized schools. hierarchy of
values
 Medium of
Instruction:Englis
h
 Training (Body
and Mental
Commonwealth  Introducing
Era course in farming,
domestic science
Japanese  Reading,  Purely academic  Changes
Regime Phonics, curriculum was (Nippongo,
Arithmetic, replaced by abolishing English
Language etc. modified general as medium of
 Revision of the curriculum. instruction and as
Elementary  Strictly vocational, subject)
Curriculum technical, and  All textbooks
 Discover agricultural. were censored
Vocational and revised
Interests  It caused a “black
out” in the
Philippine
Education
Philippine  Cultivate  Basic Subjects:  Great
Republic unspecialized grammar and experiments in
skills and proper composition, the community
attitudes toward Reading, General school
work. Science, World  Medium of
 Academic History Instruction:Use of
courses and  Two-Two Plan Vernacular
training in Curriculum (1959-  School and
practical and 1972) – Common Community
useful and streamed Collaboration
occupations. curriculum pioneered by
 National  Vocational Jose V. Aguilar.
language Education  Schools are
became Curriculum in increasingly using
curricular agricultural and instructional
subject. rural high school. materials that are
 English as a Philippine-
subject in the oriented.
first two grades.  Memorandum
No.30, 1966
 Books which
 contributes to
Phil. Literature
 Library equipment
and permanent
features
Liberation  Some steps taken
Period were to restore
grade VII
 Adopt the modern
trends in
education taken
from the US
 Curriculum:Subje
ct-centered
New Society  Revised  Revised
Elementary Secondary
Education Education
Program (REEP) Program (RSEP)
introduced  Work-oriented
curricular Curriculum
changes.  Civic Education
 Project IMPACT (CAT,YDT)
 IS-OSA  Elective Courses
 CPS  Distance Study
(Continuous Systems
Progression  Secondary
Scheme Education
 Work-oriented Development
Curriculum Program (SEDP)
 Curriculum  New Secondary
Imperatives Education
Curriculum
(NSEC)
 Special Science
Curriculum
 Special
Curriculum for the
talented or gifted
students in the
field of Aesthetics
(Philippine High
School for the
Arts)