CENTRAL LUZON DOCTORS’ HOSPITAL

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, INC.

Romulo Highway, San Pablo, Tarlac City
Department of Graduate Studies
Master of Science in Nursing

COURSE TITLE: FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION

PREPARED BY: FLORA M. TEL-EQUEN

TOPIC: ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

The concepts on anthropological foundations of education serve as

one of the pillars of our educational system. This anthropological foundation

traces back the history of our education in terms of the early forms of

Philippine culture, beliefs, customs and traditions which served as patterns

reflected to the kind of educational reform who have today.

For what we are today is the result of what we have done or failed to

do in the past. What we shall be in the future depends upon what we do

today. Therefore, to understand our present problems and get help in solving

them, we can look to these past successes and mistakes.

Anthropological Foundations

1. Man as a Biological and Social Well Being

2. Culture: Functions, Characteristics and Classifications

3. The Filipino Culture and Values: Strengths and Weaknesses

What is Anthropology?

 Anthropology was derived from the Greek word anthrope meaning man

and logy meaning science.

 Literal meaning of anthropology then is science of man.

 It is the study of mankind.

  Dictionary defines anthropology as the science that treats the origin,

development, and especially the cultural development, customs,

beliefs, etc. of man.

 Herskovitz defines anthropology as “the science of man and his works.”

 According to Jacobs and Stern, anthropology is the scientific study of

physical, social and cultural development and behavior of human

beings since their appearance on earth.

Man is a unique animal kingdom because:

 He walks erect.

 He uses his hands for handling.

 He has more complex brain.

 He is also unique in the field of behavior for the following reasons:

o He possesses tools and other material artifacts.

o He has complex techniques for getting and preparing food.

o He has social and political organization.

o He has a system of religious beliefs and rituals.

o He communicates by means of language.

Divisions of Anthropology:

A. PHYSICAL- deals with the study of man as product of the evolutionary

process. It is concerned with man’s bodily structures.

B. CULTURAL- deals with man’s behavior and with the ways human

beings carry out the activities of daily living.

 The diversity of human behavior is seen in:

o food habits

o ways food is cooked

 o habits of dress and ornaments

o relations within laws

Cultural anthropology sub-divisions:

A. LINGUISTICS

 Concerned with man’s language, a non- literate or literate, past and

present.

 refers to which studies people as biological organisms. Physical

anthropologists usually tend to concentrate upon human genetics,

the study of inherited characteristics upon morphological statistics,

the measurement of human body, and the analysis of the body’s

physical characteristics. One area of specialist study is the private

ethnology, and the study of behavior of apes and monkeys, which

unites anthropologists, psychologists, and zoologists.

Descriptive linguistics

 Deals with the classification, arrangement and study of the features

of language.

 Devoted to the behavior of people and the products of that

behavior. It is sometimes called “social anthropology”.

 Ethnography is the study of a particular culture; in most instances

the subject is a living culture.

Comparative or Historical Linguistics

 Takes up the changes in language, the borrowings from other

languages, and the comparison of languages.

RELATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO OTHER SCIENCES

 Physical Anthropology is related to the biological sciences-anatomy,

physiology, embryology and genetics.

 Social anthropology is related to sociology, psychology, geography,

economics, and political sciences.

 Cultural anthropology is related to humanistic disciplines, such as

history, literature, art, and music.

EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

 It allows people to study how humans and other organisms react to

certain environments.

 It gives us insight in how things work, live and coexist.

 Through anthropology, we can determine how things were made, live

and react to different scenarios and how different texts and our

perception of ideas change us.

 It also helps us to study the changes that happen upon nature or from

ourselves or from other organisms.

 Along with this it shows us a great deal how much more advanced we

are to become.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION

 Education at its core refers to the pursuit of knowledge.

 Anthropology is the study of culture and its people.

 Since inherent learning structures are a part of anthropology in terms of

human development, then education can be considered a primary

feature of people and their culture.

 In other words, without education, there would be no possibility for

people to persist in their cultural development and less there would be

less emphasis on studying cultural trends.

 In the process of education, History is being studied which is the main

and the basic record of culture, hence it cannot be denied that it is

being nourished by education.

 The purposeful and befitting of culture helps in the strength and spread

of culture. The needs of society, whether religious, social, cultural or

psychological, all are fulfilled only by education.

 One important function of education is the preservation of culture.

Continuity of man’s life is possible through this process.

 Culture has to be conserved and transmitted to the youth for their own

benefits because past benefits are useful in learning the new ones.