Education

• Functions of Education

  1. Manifest function
  2. Latent function
• Education - include the whole process of development through which a human being passes from infancy to maturity, gradually adapting himself to his physical and social environment.
• To moralist, education is preparation for the life hereafter
• To sociologists and anthropologist, education is the process, in school or beyond, of transmitting a society's cultural knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors.
• Forms of Education

  1. Formal education
  2. Informal education
  3. Non-formal education
• R. A. 10533 - upholding K-12
• Formal Education - is instruction given in schools: hence, it is often called schooling.
• Formal education - In the end, the learners may earn a diploma, a certificate, or degree as a mark of their success over the years.
• Formal education - This is the "education system" with its hierarchical structures and chronological succession of grades, from primary to university
• Informal Education - the lifelong process of learning while people go about their lives.
• Informal Education - through the educational influences and resources of the geographical, social, and cultural environments, and through the influences of the mass communication media.
• Non-Formal Education - This comprises all those education activities that are organized outside the established formal system
• Non-Formal Education - designed for identifiable clientele and educational objectives such as those for out-of school youths and illiterate adults.
• Etymologically speaking, the term education has its roots from the Latin words

  • "E" or "Ex" meaning "What is inside is brought out"
  • "Ducere" meaning "to draw out." "to bring forth," "to lead", "elicit," "develop from the latent, rudimentary or potential condition".
• A true liberating education is one where the teacher is like a midwife as envisioned by Socrates.
• The midwife draws the human (the infant) from the human (the mother) A teacher should be like that.
• A true liberating education - Socrates called this the Maieutic Method.
• Tuiebeo - it is an educational system that could truly liberate the nation from its basic problem social inequity, foreign domination, feudal exploitation and bureaucratic opportunism
• Nemeslo Prudente - it is an education system that would be a weapon against fascism, aging feudalism, against imperialism and neo-colonialism, against all forms of exploitation and oppression of man by man
• Alternative education - addresses the basic problems of the society
• The Philippine Education System - an organized bureaucracy which provides formal and non-formal education.
• The three academic levels of formal schooling are the:

  • elementary or primary
  • secondary
  • tertiary
• The First Level: ELEMENTARY EDUCATION - involves compulsory six grades in public schools and seven grades in some private schools, in addition to optional pre-school programs.
• Pre-school education - usually consists of kindergarten schooling and other preparatory courses.
• • At the age of 3 or 4, a pupil may enter nursery school until 5 or 6 years old;
  • Then he/she proceeds to grade one.
• The Second Level: SECONDARY EDUCATION

  • Four (4) years of Junior High School (JHS)
  • Two (2) years of Senior High School (SHS)
• earn-while-you-learn opportunities - provides them exposure and actual experience in their chosen track.
• Each student in SHS can choose among three tracks:

  1. Academics
  2. Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL)
  3. Sports and Arts
• Academics

  1. Accounting, Business, and Management (ABM)
  2. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
  3. Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS)
  4. General Academic Strand (GAS)
• The Third Level: TERTIARY OR HIGHER EDUCATION

  1. Collegiate or Undergraduate
  2. Graduate or Master’s
  3. Post-graduate or Doctorate levels in various disciplines
• Post-secondary schooling - consists of two or three-year non-degree or vocational courses.
• NON-FORMAL EDUCATION - includes acquisition of knowledge even outside school premises.
• Department of Education (DepEd) - Responsible for administering, supervising, and regulating basic education (elementary and secondary education).
• DepEd - Emanates all policies, standards, rules and regulations concerning basic education
• DepEd - Created by Republic Act 9155
• Commission on Higher Education (CHED) - Responsible for administrating and supervising of higher education
• CHED - Created by Republic Act 7722
• Technical education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) - The post-secondary technical functional education
• TESDA - Incharge of skills orientation, training, and development of out-of-school youth and unemployed adults.
• TESDA - Created by Republic Act 7796