EDUCATION,

RELIGION AND
BELIEF
SYSTEM AND
HEALTH
 * Why do you study?
* Doyou think your answer
to the above question
benefits the society?

* In what manner?
* What are these education
system really for?

Education serves to
improve the status of
the person.
 EDUCATIO
N
1. Formal
Education
2. Non-Formal
Education
3. Informal Education
 1. Formal
Education
Major means used by the
state to educate the majority
of the population. This takes
place inside the classroom
with Curriculum Guide.
 2. Non-Formal
Education
When a young people
interact with adults or
with their parents, they
are already learning the
culture of their group.
3. Informal Education
Pertains to lifelong process
of learning of an individual,
acquisition of values, skills,
knowledge from his/her daily
experiences in the society.
 Sociological Analysis of
Education
Manifest Opened, obvious,
Function stated
Latent
hidden
Function
 Sociological Analysis of
Education
Manifest Function
Transmit knowledge from one
generation to another generation.
The school teaches to the students
the basic information and skills like
reading, writing and speaking.
Sociological Analysis of
Education
Latent Function
Includes the transmission of
culture, promotion of social and
political integration, maintenance
of social control and service as an
agent of change.
 Education as a Human
Rights
Education as a basic human rights!
The right to education is very
crucial in order to exercise all other
human rights – right to work,
freedom of expression, rights of the
accused, etc.
November 4, 2015, the UNESCO
General Conference adopted the
Education 2030 Framework for
Action
All girls and boys have complete
free, equitable and family primary
and secondary education leading to
relevant and effective learning
outcomes.
 All girls and boys have access to
quality early childhood
development, care and pre-primary
education so that they are ready for
primary education.
 RELIGION
AND BELIEF
SYSTEMS
Religion
The belief of the
supernatural, is one of the
dominant social institutions
in every society.
 Religion or a spiritual belief
offers answers and explanations
to many ultimate questions
regarding
? human existence.
HY
W
Why are there successes and failures in
one’s life?
Why people Why there is an
exist? end to life?
Organized Unorganize
Religions d Religions

Islam Animism
Catholicis
Polytheism
m Monotheis
m
 ANIMISM
Oldest form of religion in the
world.
Believed that physical objects are
sacred and inhabited by spirits.
Animistic people perform rituals,
customs and ceremonies that
celebrate their sacred objects to
summon, aid or pacify spirits.
 Initiating a
Harvest
child into
season
adulthood
For For
fertility burial
For
wedding
 POLYTHEIS
M
As the knowledge of the people
progressed through time, so did
their way of living.
This caused a spiritual
transformation and animism was
reduced to belief in a smaller
number of supernatural beings.
The belief of many deities and
they are recognizable and have
personalities and histories.
Rituals and ceremonies are also
done in worshipping the deities
in polytheist religions.
 MONOTHEIS
M activities led
Progress in economic
to urbanization which gave birth to
another transformation in spiritual
beliefs.
People become more organized and
put into literature and learnings and
spiritual events that they had
encountered.
 The clergy, or the people of the
church, compiled these literature
and formed them into doctrines;
thus, organized religions
emerged.
Atheism – belief that supernatural beings do not exist

• Do not believe in the concepts of heaven and hell,

salvation and resurrection.

Agnosticism – the gray line between belief and

nonbeliever
• Agnostics are the ones who suppose that the
concept of supernatural beliefs and religions
cannot be totally known or explained.

Apatheism – total apathy towards the concept of

supernatural belief.
• Apatheists do not involve themselves in debate of
atheist, theist and agnostics because believing in
supernatural beings is the least of their concerns.
 Traditional Medicine
Healing is based on theories,
traditional wisdom and belief,
and ancient practices, is widely
practiced in many societies in
the world
 Alternative Medicine
In most household, whenever
there are emergency health
needs, a member of the family
prepares a home remedy or
alternative medicine.
 Culture-Specific
Syndromes, Prevention
and Healing
Health Syndromes Filipino
Attribute to the Culture
 1. USOG
Most popular culture-specific
Filipino syndrome or greetings that
caused malady to a person.
Started in Visayas, the nausog was
brought to albularyo or shaman and
healed through chewing herbal
leaves.
 2. KULAM, BARANG,
SAPI ETC.
Sickness is often associated with
supernatural forces, thus may be
regarded as a spell from a dark
force
KULAM – a spell cast by a
warlock/witch upon another person
for whom he/she feels jealousy or
wrath.
BARANG – a worse version of
kulam is a curse that involves the
withdrawal of insects from the
body.
SAPI – literal Filipino version of
spirit possession that a person who
suffers may lose his/her
consciousness and may do things
that no ordinary human can do.
Engkant
o Nun
Evil
Spirits
o
Aswang
 3. LIHI
The strong obsessive craving of a
pregnant woman for a particular
food which can result in her child
resembling the food she has craved.
Concept of lihi originated in
Genesis 30:36-43
 4. PASMA
Illness where a person experiences
hand tremors, sweaty palms,
numbness, and pains. Believed to
be caused by exposure to cold
elements after engaging in a heated
environment or activity.