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The early inhabitants of the archipelago had their own culture and traditions.
- Own belief system and indigenous knowledge
- Keeps them organized and sustained their lives and communities for many years.
SCIENCE
- Planting crops that provide them food
- Taking care of animals
- Food production
- Interpret the movements of heavenly bodies to predict seasons and climates
- Medical uses of plants
- Established schools and introduced the concepts of subjects and disciplines
- Learning of science in school focuses on understanding different concepts related to
the
human body, plants, animals and bodies.
- Technology focuses on using and developing house tools.
Superstitious beliefs and Catholic doctrines and practices halted the growth of science
in the country.
Public education system
Improved engineering works and health of the people
Mineral resources were explored and exploited
“Americanize” the Filipinos
- Reorganized the learning of science
- In basic education, science education focuses on the
nature studies and science and sanitation.
The country had a difficult time to rebuild itself from the ruins of the war.
The human spirit to survive and to rebuild the country maybe strong but
the capacity of the country to bring back what was destroyed was limited.
NEW REPUBLIC
- Focusing on using its limited resources in improving S&T capability.
- Use of Overseas Development Allocation to improve scientific
productivity and technological capability.
- Human resource development
Introduced and implement programs, projects and policies to boost
science and technology
GOAL: prepare the whole country and its people to meet the demands
of a technologically driven world and capacitate the people to live in a
world driven by science.
In response to the ASEAN 2015 Agenda, the government, particularly the DOST, has
sought the expertise of the NRCP to consult various sectors in the society to study how
the Philippines can prepare itself in meeting the ASEAN 2015 Goals.
The NRCP clustered these policies into four:
1. Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, International Policies and Governance
2. Physics, Engineering, and Industrial Research, Earth and Space Sciences, and
Mathematics
3. Medical, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences
4. Biological Sciences, Agriculture and Forestry
ASSESSMENT:
Concepcion, G.P., Padlan, E.A. & Saloma, C.A. (Editor). (2008). Selected Essays on Science and
Technology for Securing a Better Philippines. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the
Philippines Press.
Lee- Chua, Q. (2000). 10 Outstanding Filipino Scientist. Quezon City: Anvil Publishing.
Philippine-American Association for Science and Engineering. (2008). “Science and Technology
in Economic Development.” In Selected Essays on Science and Technology for Securing a
Better Philippines. 1. 6-9.