EARLY PERSPECTIVE OF

THE CURRICULUM

JACKIELYN M. PAJARILLO
MAE-TEG
Curriculum evolution dates back to pre-
spanish time to the present.

• If you are to comment/critique, which of the

periods would give merits or favorable comments?
Which of these would you like to erase in your
memory? Support your answer.
RELIGIONS •Matters that
affected and
sometimes
POLITICAL dictated the
kind of
SOCIAL AND curriculum
POLITICAL developed in
INFLUENCES that particular
epoch of
OTHER Philippine
history.
EVENTS
COLONISTS
•Colonial rule in the country
tailored the curriculum to
serve colonial goals and
objectives.
• Before the coming of the Spaniards the
Filipino possessed a culture of their own.
They had contacts with other foreign
peoples from arabia, india, china, indo-
china and borneo. The diaries of fr.
Chirino attest to the historical fact that
“the inhabitants were a civilized people,
possessing their system of writing, laws
and moral standards in a well-organized
system of government. They did not have
an organized system of education as we
have now.
• They, however, possessed the
knowledge as expressed in their ways of
life and as shown in the rule of the
barangay, their code of laws – the code
of kalantiao and maragtas, their belief in
the bathala, the solidarity of the family,
the modesty of the women, the
children’s obedience and respect for
their elders, and in the valor of the
men.”
•The Spanish
curriculum then
consisted of three r’s –
reading, writing and
religion was imposed
with the curricular
goals for the
acceptance of
Catholicism and the
acceptance of spanish
rule.
 The American devised curriculum was also
dominated with the motive of conquering the
Filipinos not only physically but also intellectually.
 As the Philippines is a colonial country, different
cultures were infused into our educational
system brought about by our colonizers. Colonial
rule in the country tailored the curriculum to
serve colonial goals and objectives. We can do
nothing about it so let’s find ways to make use of
it.
 By nature curriculum is
dynamic. Hence it must be
viewed as changing and
developing.