Notes on the need for curriculum planning & development
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The document discusses the need for curriculum planning and development in the Philippines given the changes in education over the past decades. Key developments include the Philippine Commission to Survey Philippine Education's recommendations in the 1970s that were adopted as policy changes. These included setting national development goals, establishing regional science centers, and upgrading agricultural education. Education must be dynamic and respond to societal challenges and needs. It aims to both transmit and modify cultural heritage while promoting human and societal development. In response to calls for education relevance and quality, numerous innovations were introduced in the 1970s like work-oriented curriculums and the K+12 program. Survey results from 1975 suggested improvements were needed to elementary education quality.
Notes on the need for curriculum planning & development
- 1. Notes on the need for Curriculum Planning & Development In the Philippines, education underwent significant changes during the past years. In the early 1970’s the Philippine Commission to Survey Philippine Education (PCSPE) performed its designed task and came up with a body of findings, conclusions, and recommendations several of which were subsequently adopted by the National Government as bases for changes in policy, organization and structure, and curriculum planning. Among the salient recommendations were: the adoption of national development goals toward the achievement of which the educational system of the nation must contribute its share; the setting up of regional science education centers and technical institutes, the conduct of national college entrance examinations, the initiation of textbook writing project, and the upgrading of agricultural education to mention a few. For a dynamic society like the Philippines, there are always challenges. These challenges are many and varied that cover a number of areas each of which education cannot help but relate to and be concerned with. After all, the educational process, being a social process, has the twofold function of transmitting and modifying the cultural heritage, thereby ensuring the survival, stability and progress of society. Education, then cannot afford to be static; it must be dynamic. It cannot be otherwise for two reasons: First: education is concerned with and vital to the individual, whose intellectual and creative capacities it develops; Second: is concerned with and vital to the nation for which the resources of skilled and educated manpower are made available.
- 2. In short, even as education carries on its function of transmitting and modifying the cultural heritage, it also promotes human development and the development of society. The decade of the seventies witnessed other developments in Philippine education. In response to public clamor for relevance, quality and excellence in education, numerous education innovations were introduced: work-oriented curriculum, PRODED, BEC and recently the K + 12 program to name a few. Seminars, conferences, and workshops were held to orient educators and school administrators to these innovations. Through the decade – in 1975 – Project SOUTELE (Survey of Outcomes for Elementary Education) was conducted on a nationwide scale to “ empirically ascertain the nature and the extent to which the system had succeeded or failed in its effort to provide elementary education to the greatest number”. The results of this survey suggested that there is much that can be done to upgrade the quality of elementary education. A year later (1976) the Educators’ Congress was held in Manila. The ideas presented by various resource speakers during that assembly served to amplify the different dimensions of the theme “Education for the Filipino”. The ideas that they presented together upon proper deliberations were without doubt brought implications for both curriculum and curriculum planning in the Philippines. Thus, the rise of the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013” which aims to strengthen its curriculum and increasing the number of years for basic education including the necessary funds for the purpose. References: Aquino, G. V. (2000) Curriculum Planning for Better schools, 2nd Ed. Rex Bookstore Republic Act No. 10533 (2013) “Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013”