Republic of the Philippines

Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING

Guang-guang, Dahican, City of Mati, Davao Oriental, 8200

WRITTEN REPORT IN EDUC 123

( CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT)

EDUCATION DURING SPANISH REGIME

SUBMITTED BY:
Mary Rose T. Niez
Maria Rica Olarte
Elgim Limendog
Abella Gil

March 13, 2020

Objectives:
At the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

 determine the educational system during the Spanish regime;

 identify the different religious orders during the Spanish regime; and
 explain the educational decree 1863.

Content

Education during the Spanish Regime

 Religion-oriented and controlled by Roman Catholic Church.

 Spanish friars and missionaries educated the natives through religion with the aim of
converting indigenous populations to the Catholic faith.
 Boys and girls school are separated
 Education for the elite only, inadequate, suppressed and controlled.
 Friars learned the local languages.
 The Tagalog Doctrina Christiana (1593)
 In 1610, the first Filipino author Tomas Pinpin published a book in Baybayin entitled
Librong pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog ng Uicang Castila (Book for Tagalogs to Study
the Castillian Language)
 The San Carlos University was founded in Cebu I 1595. It was initially called the Colegio
de San Ildefonso. On April 28, 1611, the University of Santo Tomas was founded in
Manila.
 In 1863, Spain promulgated the Education Decree.

The Educational Decree of 1863

1. The establishment of at least two free primary schools, one for boys and another for girls,
in each town under the control of the municipal government
2. The creation of a normal school to train men as teacher, supervised by the Jesuits.
 Ilustrados (wealthy locals)
 Latin was taught to the students instead of Spanish.

System of Writing during the Spanish Regime was Latin Alphabet.

 Arriving of Different Religious Orders

 The Augustinians opened a school immediately upon arriving in Cebu in 1565.

 The Franciscans arrived in 1577, and they, too, immediately taught the people how to
read and write, besides imparting to them important industrial and agricultural
techniques.
 The Jesuits who arrived in 1581, also concentrated on teaching the young. When the
Dominicans arrived in 1587, they did the same thing in their first mission in Bataan.
 The Dominicans also made a name as they established one of the best universities in the
Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas, that was opened in 1611.
 In 1630, Dominican establishment another university, the ”San Juan de Letran” for the
orphaned boys.
 Colegio de Santa Potenciana was the first school and college for girls that opened in the
Philippines, in 1589. It was followed by another school for women, Colegio de Santa
Isabel, that opened in 1632.
 Several religious congregations also established schools for orphaned girls who could not
educate themselves.

In entirety, educational system during the Spanish regime was privileged only to Spanish
students. The supposed Philippine education was only a means to remain in Philippines as
colonizers. For this reason, the Filipinos became followers to the Spaniards in their own country.
Even auspicious Filipino became cronies, to the extent that even their lifestyles were patterned
from the Spaniards.

Reference:
http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1197/Phili[ppines-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education in the Philippines during Spanish rule