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TO SPANISH
PERIOD
PRE-SPANISH
PERIOD
✔ There was no formal schooling.
✔ Practical Education
✔ The system of schooling was not structured, thus there were no grade levels.
✔ Upon learning local language and writing systems, they began teaching Christianity, the
✔ Franciscans took to the task of improving literacy in 1577 aside from the teaching of new
✔ Jesuits followed in 1581 as well as the Dominicans in 1587 setting up a school in Bataan.
SPANISH PERIOD
✔ Instruction was religion oriented.
✔ Religion-Oriented-Catechism
✔ Schools for boys and for girls were then opened. Colegios for boys and Beaterios for girls.
✔ Beaterios – a school meant to prepare them for a covenant and meant to prepare them for secular womanhood.
SPANISH PERIOD
✔ The Universidad de San Ignacio founded in Manila by the Jesuits in 1589 was the first colegio.
✔ Doctrina Christiana was an early book of Roman Catholic Catechism, written in 1593 by Fray
Juan de Plascenscia, and is believed to be one of the earliest books in the Philippines.
THE EDUCATIONAL DECREE
OF 1863
✔ Provided a free public education system in the Philippines, manages by the government.
✔ Normal schools for women teachers were not established until 1875.
THE EDUCATIONAL DECREE
OF 1863
✔ The curriculum required the study of Christian doctrine, values and history as well as reading and writing Spanish, mathematics,
✔ Standardized the curriculum, and established normal schools, thus making systematized education available to the masses.
✔ Despite the Decree of 1863, basic education in the Philippines remained inadequate for the rest of the Spanish period, there wer not
✔ Lack of teachers