Education System in the Pre-
Colonial Philippines
Silvestre, Jennie C.
The Purpose of Education during Pre Colonial
• Survival
• To transmit knowledge
• Acquired through observation
• imitation and practice
Teaching and Learning focus
on
Behavior
Skills
Communication
Teaching and Learning focus
on
behavior
Story telling and sharing their
own literature which have
lesson in the end includes
legends, folk stories and so on
This engage with the oral
traditions which implies
values to the children
Teaching and Learning focus
on
skills
• Includes Physical and Hands on activities.
• Male and Female were trained in different ways
Teaching and Learning focus
on Skills for Men
hunting carpentry
Teaching and Learning focus
on Skills for Women
handicraft sewing Cooking Preserving Foods
Teaching and Learning focus
on
communication They sually write in
stones
woods
Tribal tutors
taught them how
to read and write
The traditional writing is called BAYBAYIN
Children were provide
more vocational
training and less
academic
Question………..
Formal or Informal?
THE TYPE OF EDUCATION INFORMA
IS L
The home serves as their school
The parents serves as their teachers.
Focused more on vocational than
academics.
Tribal tutors (ex: the babaylan).
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
they are trained to be they precede limited
effective, efficient and knowledge, they also focus
more on physical rather than
productive and exposed to
mental abilities. Worst is they
cultural and moral values of don't have any written output of
their place some of their works
References
https://youtu.be/KAyjxuXGG6k
https://youtu.be/EGSupkqazK0
https://www.k12academics.com/Education%20Worldwide/Education%20in%20the%20Philippines/history-education-philippines#:~:text=During%20the%20pre%2Dcolonial%20period,for%20example%2C%20the%20babaylan).
https://www.google.com/search?q=alibata+vs+baybayin&rlz=1C1CHZL_enPH742PH742&oq=a&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l3j69i60l4j5.1794j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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