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Prepared by: NIEL M. NISPEROS
Subject
:
DPE 101
Deprivation of access to
quality education is a major
factor contributing to social
marginalization, poverty and
dispossession of indigenous
people.
Indigenous Knowledge
and Formal Education
As Systems
of isLearning
Indigenous
knowledge,
the local
knowledge that is unique to a culture or society.
(folk knowledge, peoples knowledge,
traditional wisdom or traditional science)
Formal Education, was based on abstract
Consequences:
As as result, education was
confined to classrooms and
children separated from their
culture and environment.
Contemporary
factors
like
mass/popular culture and diminish of
elders also contributes to the decline
of indigenous knowledge.
Classroom Structure:
A classroom that reflects the organization of indigenous