ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION COLLEGE

Tacloban City

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE TITLE: 204 FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION

Course Description:
The course attempts to provide the graduate student with an overview of the theoretical
foundations on which pedagogical practice is based and gives the students a frame or reference for
understanding the dynamics of teaching profession. It traces the history of education and turns to
matter of psychology, philosophy, sociology, visions and perspectives in the Philippine Education,
their implications to educational practice and on matters of legal aspects of education.

Course Objectives:
In this course, the students are expected to:
1. Relate and be aware of the issues that directly affect teaching and the teaching
profession,
2. Trace the origin of our educational heritage,
3. Explain that the application of the different philosophies and their implications
to education, and
4. Explain the legal aspects as they affect education.
Course Content:
Part I. Understanding the Teaching Profession
1. Motivation: Status and Preparation of the Teacher
- Why Teach?
- Status of Teachers
- Preparation of Teacher
- Efforts to improve the quality of Teacher
2. The Teaching Profession
- Is Teaching a Profession?
- Trends towards professionalism
Part II. Historical and Philosophical Foundations
1. Origins of our educational heritage
- Education in primitive societies
- Education in Ancient Greece
- Education in Ancient Rome
- Influence of Arabic learning on western education
- Medieval culture and education
- Renaissance classical humanism
- Religious reformation and education
- Influence of the enlightenment on western education
2. Pioneers on Education
1. Comenius; the search for a new method
2. Locke; Empiricist educator
 3. Rousseau; The natural person
4. Pestalozzi; Theoretician and experimenter
5. Froebel; The kindergarten movement
6. Herbart; Moral and Intellectual development
7. Spencer; Utilitarian education
8. Montessori; Preplanned experience
9. Counts; Building a new social order
10. Dewey; Learning through experience
11. Hutchins; Liberal educator
12. Piaget; Development Psychologist
3. Philosophical Ideas in Education
Idealism, Realism, Perennialism, Essentialism, Pragmatism, Progressivism,
Social Reconstructionism, Existentialism

Part III. Political Economic and Legal Foundation

1. Governing and administering public education
2. Financing Philippine Public Education
3. Legal Aspects of education

Part IV. The Social Foundation of Education

1. Culture, socialization, and education
2. Social class, race, and social achievement
3. Providing Equal Educational Opportunity

Part V. Schools in the Changing Society

1. Aims of Education
2. Curriculum and Instruction
3. School Effectiveness and Reforms

Course Requirements:
1. Mid-Term and Final Examinations
2. Papers; Commentaries, reaction papers, precis
3. Individual/Group reports
4. One research-oriented group paper

REFERENCES:
Brubacher, John S. Modern Philosophies of Education. New York:
McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978
Callahon, Joseph and Leonard Clare. Foundation of Education. 2nd Ed. New
York: McMillan Publishing Co., 1983
Ornstein, Allan and Daniel Levine. Foundation of Education. 2nd Ed. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin C., 1981
Sutaris, Minda et. al. Philippine Education: Vision and Perspective.
Metro Manila: National Bookstore, 1989
 Prepared by:

VIOLETA B. SUYOM, Ph.D.