SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES (STS)
Science education in the tertiary level also focuses
CONCEPT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
- Science Education focuses on teaching, learning,
and understanding science.
-Exploring pedagogical theories and models
helping teachers teach scientific concept and
processes effectively.
-Understanding science implies developing and
applying science process skills and understanding
the natural world and activities in everyday life.
John Dewey ( 2001)
-Stressed the importance of utilizing the natural
environment to teach students.
Marx (1994)
-opines that science is going to be one of the most
important school subject in the future.
Science education provides skills and knowledge
that are necessary for a person to live in what
Knight (1986) describes as the age of science and
to develop a citizenry that will meet the goals of
science in the society (Tilghman, 2005).
SCIENCE EDUCATION IN BASIC AND TERTIARY
EDUCATION
Science education helps students learn important
concepts and facts that are related to everyday life
- ( Carale & Campo 2003 , Meador 2005; Worth &
Groliman, 2003)
Including important skills such as process skills,
critical thinking skills and life skills that are needed
in coping up with daily life activities.
-(chaille & Britain, 2002)
Science education also develops positive attitude
such as the love for knowledge, passion for
innovative things, curiosity to the study of nature
and creativity.
-(Lind,1997).
In tertiary education, science education deals with
developing students’ understanding and
appreciation of science ideas and scientific works.
on the preparation of science teachers, scientist,
engineers and other professionals in field of
science.
The state provides scholarship to encourage more
students to pursue science courses.
SCIENCE SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Philippines Science High School System (PSHSS)
-The government program for gifted students in
the Philippines.
-It's a serve institute of the Department of
Science and Technology (DOST) whose mandate
is to offer free scholarship basis for secondary
course with special emphasis on subjects
pertaining to the sciences, with the end-view of
preparing its students for science career
(Republic Act No. 3661).
-The PHSS continues to pursue its vision to
develop Filipino science scholars with scientific
minds and passion for excellence.
-PHSS students have brought honor to the
Philippines through their exemplary
achievements in various international
competitions and research circles.
Special Science Elementary Schools (SSES) Project
-SSES project is in pursuance to DepEd Order No.
73 and DepEd Order No. 51 s 2010
-The project was piloted in SY 2007 – 2008 to
selected 57 schools in 55 divisions in the 16
regions particularly among the gifted and fast
learners classes in Special Education Centers and
regular schools.
-Aims to develop Filipino children equipped with
scientific and technological knowledge, skills, and
values
MISSION is to
-provide a learning environment to science-
inclined children through a special curriculum that
recognizes the multiple intelligence of the learners
-promote the development of lifelong learning
skills
-foster the holistic development of the learners.
-Children enrolled in the program are identified
using set criteria and are primed to be
mainstreamed to the Science and Technology High
Schools.
-SSES is a research and development project
designed to develop students with higher aptitude
for science and mathematics through the
implementation of an enhanced science and
mathematics curriculum at the elementary level.
-The curriculum had a longer time compared to
other subjects and also utilize different
instructional approaches that address the
learning styles and needs of the learners like
use of investigatory projects.
Quezon City Regional Science High School
(or to its students QueSci or Kisay)
-Establish on Sept. 17,1967.( QCSHS) turn to
QCRSHS in 1999.
-Regional Science High School for the National
Capital Region.
-The school envisions to serve as a venue in
providing maximum opportunities for science-
gifted students to develop spirit of inquiry and
creativity.
-one of the prestigious sciences triumvirate of the
Republic of the Philippines along with the
Philippine Science High School and Manila Science
High School.
Manila Science High School
-establish on Oct. 1, 1963. 1st science high school in
the Philippines. by virtue of Municipal Resolution
426 signed by Mayor Antonio J. Villegas.
-Aims to produce scientist with souls. Humanities
courses and other electives are included in their
curriculum
-Manila Science High School Test (MSAT) an
entrance exam with five parts; aptitude in science,
aptitude test in math, problem-solving test in
science, pro-sol test in math, and proficiency in
English.
Indigenous Science and Technology in the Philippines (STS)
Central Visayas Institute Foundation
-The home and pioneer of the prominent school-
based innovation known as the Dynamic Learning
Program (DLP)
-DLP is a synthesis of classical and modern
pedagogical theories adapted to foster and highest
level of learning, creativity and productivity.
-Takes pride in its Research Center Theoretical
Physics (RCTP) established in 1992, which organizes
small international workshops to foster the
informal but intense exchange of ideas and
perspectives on outstanding problems in physics
and math.
The original CVIF strategic plan
(circa 1999) Focus on outcomes indexed by real
numbers: UPCAT passers, national
exams and, if possible, international
behavioral standards and assessments. And
Leapfrog with increased math proficiency, then do
broad front with language and science.
1960s- a group of biological educators at the
University of Philippines organized themselves into
a team to adapt the Biological Science Curriculum
Study (BSCS).
R.A 5506- an Act establishing Science Education
Center (SEC) as a permanent unit of the University
of the Philippines.
This act earned marked 250,000 pesos annual from
the national especial science fund for the support
of the center.
Indigenous Knowledge System
-Indigenous Knowledge embendded in daily life
experiences of young as they grow up. Parents and
other older folks served as their first teachers and their Scientific attitudes (Johnston 2000)
methods of teaching are very effective in transmitting 1. Motivating attitudes
cultural knowledge in their minds. 2. Cooperating attitudes
3. Practical attitudes
-The lesson they learned are intimately interwoven with 4. Reflective attitudes
their culture and the environment.

-Their views about nature and their reflections on their

experiences in daily life are evident in their stories, Concept of indigenous science (Pawilen, 2006)
poems and songs.
-Predicting weather conditions and seasons using INDIGENOUS
SCIENCE
knowledge in observing animal’s behavior and celestrial
bodies
-Using herbal medicine
-Preserving foods uses guided by composed by
-Classifying plants and animals into families and groups
based on cultural properties Science
Process Community
-Preserving and selecting good seeds for planting Culture and Traditional
Skills Knowledge
-Using indigenous technology in daily lives Values
-Building local irrigation systems
-Classifying different types of soil for planting based on
cultural properties
-Producing wines and juices from tropical fruits 1. Indigenous science uses science process skills such as
-Keeping the custom of growing plants and vegetables observing, comparing, classifying, measuring, problem
in the yard solving, inferring, communicating, and predicting

Indigenous Science 2. Indigenous science is guided by culture and

-Part of the indigenous knowledge system practiced by
different groups of people and early civilizations.
-It includes complex arrays of knowledge, expertise,
practices, and representations that guide human
societies in their enumerable interactions with the
natural milieu; agriculture, medicine, naming and
explaining natural phenomena, and strategies for
coping with changing environments (Pawilen, 2005).
-Ogawa(1995) claimed that it is colletively lived in and
experienced by the people of a given culture.
-Cajete(2004) indigenous science includes everything
from metaphysics to philosophy and various practical
technologies practiced by inigenous peoples both past
and present.
community values
- The land is the source of life.
- The Earth is revered as Mother Earth.
- All living and non living things are interconnected and
interdependent with each other.
-Human beings are stewards or trustee of the land and
natural resources.
- Nature is a friend to human beings
3. Indigenous science is composed of traditional
knowledge practiced and valued by people and
communities such as ethno-biology , ethno-medicine,
indigenous farming methods, and folk astronomy.
“Indigenous science helped the people in
understanding the natural environment and coping
with everyday life.”

-Iaccaeino (2003) elaborated this idea by explaining

that science is a part of culture, and how science is
done largely depends on the cultural practices of the
people.