EDM 616: COMPARATIVE EDUCATION (Final Exam)

MARJORIE A. PATAL
Ph. D. in Educational Management

EMBRACING COMPARATIVE EDUCATION: LET’S DO IT!

QUESTIONS TO PONDER

1. How is comparative education relevant to classroom teachers?

Manzon (2011, p. 215) defines comparative education as an interdisciplinary subfield of

education studies that systematically examines the similarities and differences between
educational systems in two or more national or cultural contexts, and their interactions with
intra- and extra-educational environments. Its specific object is educational systems examined
from a cross-cultural perspective through the systematic use of comparative method, for the
advancement of theoretical understanding and theory building.
Classroom teachers are always eager to learn new knowledge and understanding of
various
academic and cultural discipline. Comparative education is very important to better understand
the educational system of our own country as well as the other nations. As educators, it is
relevant for teachers look for similarities and differences of educational systems of different
countries to adapt the best practices and improve the teaching techniques and strategies that will
help the learners to achieve quality education and competitive advantage.
By studying other systems of education, teachers learn how to utilize technological
advancements such as media and their benefits and detriments and this helps to bring the
necessary reforms and innovations in one's own education system. Being aware is a great
advantage to further unleash the full potential of our educational system. Moreover, the learners
will also be able to identify their strengths, weakness, threats, and opportunities as they look in
the educational system of other countries. Thus, new learning will enlighten the learners to
accept the challenges and face the lessons with life-long learning in mind. Effective and efficient
teaching and learning process will eventually lead to the achievement of the organizational
goals.

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2. What factors should we consider when making international comparisons?
As we investigate the international education systems, we must compare and examine the
data of the countries such as Geographical sketch, History and Background, Constitutional and
Legal Foundations, Educational Philosophy, Aims of Education, Organization of the School,
Administration and Supervision of the School system, Education Reform, Education’s System,
Education Policies in the system of their education field. Studying all these factors will help to
understand the teaching and the classroom process in different countries which is essential to
know the overall background of their system. Accordingly, we will be aware of the country's
performance to others in order to assess what countries have achieved better results, what needs
to change in order for them to perform better, or a country's progress in reaching certain
objectives.

3. Identify three (3) current issues in the educational system of the Philippines and provide
possible solutions. These solutions may be the borrowed practices or policies from the countries
that you have read that you think will be of great help to the Philippines setting.

Issues Possible Solutions Explanation

Drop-out Rate
Learner Skill Development
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To reduce drop-out rate, The Regular conference with the
Philippine education parents on their children’s
coordinates with the learners class standing and regular
and parents by helping and home visitation motivates the
motivating learners at risk of learners to continue learning
dropping outs to get in schools.
interested in the learning
modalities.
Education in Cambodia that I would like to emphasize
involved basic literature, the that developing learners
foundation of religion and holistically is important to
skills for daily life may be prepare them and be ready to
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 adopted. real-life situation.

Staff Development and Teachers are entitled to 100 With this, teachers’ focus on
Professional Growth hours of professional subject matter and
development per year pedagogical knowledge will
developed in the Education lead towards higher degrees.
system of Singapore.

4. Write a research title, brief rationale, and its corresponding research objectives that you
want to explore in the future after taking up the course-COMPARATIVE EDUCATION.

Research Title ICT INTEGRATION IN TEACHING OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN

COUNTRIES AND ITS IMPACT IN ELEMENTARY
TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE
Rationale The digital revolution has dramatically changed the nature of work
and the skills required to succeed in the 21st century. Many
education systems have come under increased pressure to re-examine
and adjust the way they are preparing students for the economy
ahead as Information age rise drastically.
Schools and other educational institutions which are supposed to
prepare students to live in “a knowledge society” need to consider
ICT integration in their curriculum (Ghavifekr, et al., 2012).
Technology integration nowadays has gone through innovations and
transformed our societies that has totally changed the way people
think, work and live especially in Southeast Asia.
As the global competition becomes increasingly popular, how to
build sustainable competitive advantage starts obtaining more
attention, especially in the education sector (Namusonge et al.,
2016). Integration of Information Communication and Technology
(ICT) in different subjects will assist teachers to the global
requirement to replace traditional teaching methods with a
technology-based teaching and learning tools and facilities.

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 Education faces many possibilities and challenges in the future. But
the use of technology in education contributes a lot in the
pedagogical aspects in which the application of ICT will lead to
effective learning with the help and supports from ICT elements and
components (Jamieson-Procter et al., 2013). It is right to say that
almost all ranges of subjects’ start from Mathematics, Science,
Languages, Arts and Humanistic and other major fields can be
learned more effectively through technology-based tools and
equipment.
It is visible in the her country that schools therein are
considered good performing and ICT-based. Public elementary
school heads are efficient and effective leaders in achieving the
organizational goals however, their school will be able to compete if
it has an edge in creating, implementing, and sustaining their
technological advancement.
The researcher herself witnessed how integration of ICT in
her own school greatly affect teachers’ performance and
productivity. Believing that this present study would prove valuable
and serve as a guide for policy makers, school heads and teachers in
the Philippines to intensify initiatives to encourage greater
understanding and acceptance of the concept of ICT integration that
boosts sustainable competitive advantage in the field of education,
the researcher opted to conduct this study which leads to the crafting
of an action plan.
Research Objectives The objective of this study is to identify the impact of ICT
integration in teaching of Southeast Asian countries to teachers’
performance of selected public elementary schools in the Philippines
with an end view of developing an action plan.
Specifically, this study aims to achieve the following objectives:
1. Determine the effectiveness of ICT integration in teaching of
Southeast Asian countries in terms of:
1.1 Teachers’ Perception
1.2 Effectiveness
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 1.3 ICT Availability
2. Find out the level of teachers’ performance of the public
elementary schools in Philippines in terms of:
2.1 Curriculum Content and Pedagogy
2.2 Learning Environment
2.3 Diversity of Learners
2.4 Planning, Assessing and Reporting
2.5 Community Linkages
2.6 Personal and Professional Development
3. Find if there is a significant relationship between ICT
integration in teaching and teachers’ performance of public
elementary schools in the Philippines.
4. Ascertain any significant difference in the public elementary
schools’ ICT integration and teachers’ performance when
respondents are grouped according to Region.
5. Develop an action plan for the school year 2021-2022 relative
to support the educational institution.
6. Ascertain the level of acceptability of the developed action
plan in terms of:
5.1 Content,
5.2 Functionality,
5.3 Adaptability, and
5.4 Usefulness.

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