HISTORICAL

FOUNDATIONS OF
PHILIPPINE
EDUCATION
Conrado Panerio Jr.
HISTORICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF
PHILIPPINE
EDUCATION
PRE-SPANISH PERIOD
PRE-SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The educational aims are for survival and
conformity and for enculturation.
▪ Trainings are more on domestic chores and
practical/ occupational honing of skills in hunting,
farming, etc. Moreover, theoretical/ moral and
spiritual awakening e.g. worship, laws, and codes
are included.
▪ Basically, education is for the purpose of how to
survive or survival education.
HISTORICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF
PHILIPPINE
EDUCATION
SPANISH PERIOD
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The educational aim of Spanish education is
institutionalized under Royal Decree of 1555
which mandated the three goals in the country:
▪ Indoctrination of Christianity
▪ Promotion of the Spanish Language
▪ Imposition of Spanish Culture
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The education of the Filipino was focused mainly
on the learning of the Christian Doctrine. It
was a simple cathechism, the doctrina, not the
same as Christian education in Europe.
▪ The Augustinians, Franciscans, Dominicans, and
Jesuits introduced the parochial school concept
practiced in the Europe during the Dark Ages.
▪ The rise of parochial schools started in Cebu in
1565 by the Augustinian missionaries.
▪ Training was done formally through the visitas
which served as the first schools.
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ There were colegios for boys and
beaterios for girls. This is
equivalent to today`s present-day
high school.
▪ Colegio de San Ignacio by the
Jesuits in 1589 in Manila was the first
colegio.
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The Dominicans put up the ▪ The Beaterio de Santa Isabel was
Colegio de Santo Rosario which founded in 1632 and became the
later became Colegio de Santo oldest existing school for girls.
Tomas now the Pontifical
University of Santo Tomas.
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The Beaterio de Santa
Potenciana in 1594 was the first
beaterio for girls.
SPANISH PERIOD
▪ The media of instruction is Spanish and Latin.
▪ The type of education is:
▪ Authoritarianism
▪ Teacher – dominated
▪ Subject – centered
▪ Imposition of severe discipline
SPANISH PERIOD:
CONTRIBUTIONS
▪ Upliftment of the Philippine Education Through Royal Decree of 1863 (Education Act of
1863 by Minister Jose dela Concha).
▪ First attempt of the Spaniards to establish an overall public school system.
▪ Provision for training of teachers through a normal school attached to Escuela Pia, now
Ateneo de Manila University.
▪ Complete system of education.
▪ Free system of education
▪ Reorganization of the school curriculum
▪ Government supervision and control of school thus breaking 3 century church
domination in education
SPANISH PERIOD:
CONTRIBUTIONS
▪ Produced the first grammars and
dictionaries that led to the development
of Filipino languages.
▪ “Arte y Vocabulario de Lengua
Tagala” by Juan Quinones in 1581 was
the first Tagalog grammar and
dictionary in the country.
▪ Another popular Tagalog grammar was
“Arte y Regla de la Lengua Tagala”
by Francisco Blancas de San Jose,
printed by Tomas Pinpin in 1610.
REFERENCE
▪ Tulio, D. (2008). Historical, Philosophical, and Legal Foundations of Education 2
Second Edition. National Bookstore.