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Theoretical Background
Theoretical Background
Jean Piaget’s constructivism; and Republic Act No. 10533 an Act enhancing
increasing the number of years for basic education, appropriating funds there
knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from
own understanding of the world we live in. Each of us generates our own rules
Furthermore, Jean Piaget authored his theory based on the idea that a
Likewise, this study is supported with Republic Act No. 10533 also
the policy of the state that every graduate of basic education shall be an
productive, the ability to coexist in fruitful harmony with local and global
thinking, and the capacity and willingness to transform others and one’s self
( Sec 2).
create a functional basic education system that will develop productive and
for both life-long learning and employment. In order to achieve this, the state
with international standards; broaden the goals of high school education for
oriented and responsive to the needs, cognitive and cultural capacity, the
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students will have the application of their knowledge. As a teacher you can
students’ skills you readily needs enough facilities in your shop like equipment
Livelihood Education.
unless he has the much needed tools for instruction. This is predicated on the
educational precept or doctrine that “vocational-technical education skill
important to focus on the skills of the students rather than dwelling on what he
Roger Schank wrote “life requires us to do, more than it requires us to know,
useful tasks. There is only one effective way to teach someone how to do
anything and that is to let them do it” (Schank et al., 1999). Moreover, Aristotle
stated “One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it,
senses are involved that he may learn. The experience will concrete all the
they have learned in our classroom discussion in reality and that is by actual
learning. Both theories of Piaget and Dewey based on the premise that an