2. The development of curriculum in
history is basically founded on five
outstanding motives
• Religion
• Political
• Utilitarian
• Mass Education
• Excellence in Education
3. Pre – Hispanic Era
• vocational training and academic subjects;
• Tribal tutors oral, practical and hands-on;
• use of Baybayin;
• oral, practical and hands-on.
4. Spanish Period
• Education was religion-centered.
• Education for the elite only.
• Spanish is compulsory.
• The church and school work together.
• Inadequate, suppressed and controlled.
9. Spanish Period
In 1640, the Unibersidad de San Felipe de Autria
(first public University in the Philippines)
10. American Period
• highly centralized public school system in 1901
(PH Commission act no. 74)
• Filipinization of all department secretaries
• Free public school system
• Thomasites, trained aspiring Filipino teachers