The Teacher and the Community, School Culture

and Organizational Leadership 1

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Exercise No. 2.1

Directions: Identify the goal of education/schools in each of the following periods of Philippine
Education History.

1. Pre-colonial period – to prepare them to be a good husbands and wives.

2. Spanish period – to have more Christian followers and believers.

3. American Regime – to give every individual the privilege of learning more, practicing their rights of

being free to know more.

4. Japanese Regime – making people fond of labor works and merging the culture of Japanese people to

the Philippines.

5. Post-colonial Period - to foster the love of the country, to teach the duty of citizenship to develop
moral character, self-discipline and scientific, technological and vocational efficiency.

Exercise No. 2.2

Directions: Identify the social science theory being referred to by the given statements.

1. When one institution fails to function, another institution ought to come in to perform the function for
the stability of society. Structural-functional theory

2. A new society comes as a result of the resolution of clash between the powerful and the workers.
Conflict theory

3. Two opposing sides are welcomed. This paves the way to change. Conflict theory

4. When one institution fails to perform its function, the other institutions showed come in for the
preservation of society. Structural-functional theory
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5. One weakness of this theory is this is focused on small interactions. The symbolic interactionism
theory

6. Differences in meaning of symbols for both sender and receiver result to misunderstanding. The
symbolic interactionism theory

7. The overall health of society depends upon the healthy functioning of its institutions. Structural-
functional theory

8. Meanings that individuals give to symbols change over time. The symbolic interactionism theory

9. Faulty communication can result from differences in the perception of the same events and symbols.
The symbolic interactionism theory

10. Schools teach humanitarian attitude, altruism, democracy, civil rights, and other positive aspects of
society to preserve society and social order. Structural-functional theory

Give your best shot!

Activity No. 3

Directions: Which of the three social the theories best reflects the unfolding of events in the history of
the Philippine Education System? Explain your answer. You may cite instances from the history and
expound further. Be scholarly. (200-250 words)

For me it’s the Structural-functional theory. Through-out the Philippines history, type of education is
most likely dependent to the ones colonizing our country. We have adapted their culture for the past
centuries. I think it is systematically structured through the years pass. Era to era the ways/system of how
the knowledge shared to the society of the Filipino people are changed every time theirs new leader until,
our independence. Once, there is a limitation to what we should learn, then a change of leaders. There is
always a structured plan or design that society follows. It made us less our own, but it also has a turning
point that made us more competitive. Learning then become not illegal but it is still structured, we must
pass through certain levels for us to go further. And this system goes until know, we have made some
adjustment, some changes, sometimes eliminate things inappropriate for the societies growth. But still,
this structure where pass on by the past. It is crucial for the stability or the equilibrium of every society’s
function. We respect, we believe, we learn. Adjustments made for the system to be maintained and not
ruin the sequence. These things that are made by carefully planning how to preserve the equilibrium of
the knowledge sharing on the Philippines.

My Take Aways
I learned that the history of the Philippine’s way of teaching are adapted by the colonizing countries
that made it through here. It is them that taught us to be us, I mean what we are now. And I deeply
understand how the theories was related to our way of learning. The way we learn are dependent to the
ones in charge or the ones teaching us, but we can also choose to believe that or not. Every one of us
has our own consciousness.
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Prepared by:

Alvin L. Dalisay, MAED

Fanny F. Arsenio, MAED

Dana Kaye F. Fabiala, MEM

Subject Instructors