The Teaching Profession

MARCH 24, 2021

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Today’s Objectives:

I must:

 know the history and legal foundation of education.

 understand well why there’s a need to master the history and
legal foundation of education.
 raise my concern properly regarding the topic for discussion.
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Simple Review

Learning to know
It is regarded as a means and an end in learning and in life. As a
means, it serves to enable learners to understand the very least
enough about the nature, about humankind and its history, about his
or her environment, and about society at large. As an end, it
enables the learners to experience the presence of knowing,
discovering and understanding as a process.
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Simple Review

Learning to do
It means the application of what learners have learned or known
into practices. It is closely related to vocational-technical
education and work skills training. However, learning to do call for
new types of skills, more behavioral than intellectual. This implies a
shift from skill to competence or a mix of higher-order skills specific
to each individual learner.
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Simple Review

Learning to live together

It implies an education taking two complementary path; on one
level, discovery of others and experience of shared purposes
throughout life. It simply means developing the following qualities:
knowledge and understanding of self and others, appreciation of the
diversity of the human race and an awareness of the similarities
between the interdependence of all humans, respect of other people
and their cultures and value systems and the capability of
encountering others and resolving conflicts through dialogues.
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Simple Review

Learning to be
It can be interpreted in one way as learning to be human, through
acquisition of knowledge, skills and values conducive to personality
development in its intellectual, moral, cultural and physical
dimensions. This implies a curriculum aiming at cultivating qualities
of imagination and creativity, acquiring universally shared human
values, developing critical thinking and exercising independent
judgment and developing personal commitment and responsibility.
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Today’s Lesson

Historico-Legal
Foundations of Education
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Today’s Lesson

From a historical standpoint, the Philippine

educational system has been regarded as a hybrid,
reflecting the country’s cultural and colonial
history. Education laws and policies that have
been enacted and implemented throughout history
are testaments to this.
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Today’s Lesson

Observably, Philippine culture and society value

education as a means to an end. This is probably
the reason why the Philippines has one of the
highest literacy rates in Asia and in the world.
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Today’s Lesson

The discovery of Laguna Copperplate Inscription

dated 900 AD highlighted the cultural links present
between the Tagalog-speakingpeople this time and
the various contemporary civilizations in Asia,
most notably the middle kingdoms of india, and the
Srivijaya empire.
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Today’s Lesson

For emphasis, 900 AD is now the recognized date

when the first surviving written record that came
from the Philippines was inscribed, The plate has
an inscribed date of Saka era 822, corresponding
to April 21, 900 AD. Written in the Kavi script, the
plate contains many words from Sanskrit, old
Javanese, old Malay and old Tagalog.
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Today’s Lesson

When Spanish came in 1521, they noticed

that the Filipino natives could read and
write with common scripts in Baybayin, the
pre-Spanish Filipino alphabet.
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The Laguna Copperplate Inscription
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The Baybayin