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Historical Foundation of Education Lecture No. 2
Historical Foundation of Education Lecture No. 2
FOUNDATION
OF
EDUCATION
Lecture No. 2
LESSON OBJECTIVES
• State the relationship of society and
schools
• Prove that schools transmit cultural
values by stating facts from education
history in the world and in the Philippines
• Explain the meaning of socialization as a
function of schools
INTRODUCTION
The beliefs and experiences of
education today rest on the history of
this field of endeavor. By knowing
what accomplishments of leaders in
the past, today’s educators attempt to
build on their achievements.
PRIMITIVE EDUCATION
Life among primitive or tribal people
was very simple compared with the
complex life that people have today.
Their means of livelihood were hunting
and gathering wild fruits and
vegetables. There was no reading or
writing and information was transmitted
through word of mouth, songs, gestures,
ceremonial and the likes.
AIMS OF PRIMITIVE
EDUCATION
1. Security and Survival
2. Conformity
3. Preservation and
Transmission of
Tradition
SOME CHARACTERISTICS
OF PRIMITIVE CULTURE
Relatively SIMPLE
Relatively narrow social and cultural contacts
Extraordinary conservative and prone to
superstitions
The organization of primitive life is tribal not
political so that one function of education is to
enable one to live his relatives.
Absence from primitive cultures of reading
and writing.
TYPES OF EDUCATION IN
THE PRIMITIVE CULTURE
1. Vocational. These includes learning
skills in procuring basic necessities of
life like hunting, constructing a hut,
etc.
2. Religious (animistic). Consisted in
learning how to participate in ritualistic
practices to please or to appease the
unseen spirits roaming around.
LESSON CONTENT
1. Ways of procuring the basic
necessities in life and of
protecting life from dangers.
2. Superstitious. Included as how to
worship before the dwelling of an
unseen spirit such as big tree, a
big rock, a river, etc.
AGENCIES OF EDUCATION