Even Our Education?!? (Post-Colonial - Critical Commentary)
Who is taught? Who is able to enter or access the system as learners? Who are retained? How?
Spanish friars and missionaries educated the natives through religion with the aim of converting indigenous populations to the Catholic faith.
Although secondary and higher education were made available to the local inhabitants by virtue of the 1863 Education Decree, it was only the illustrados (wealthy locals) who could afford to send their children to study.
What is taught? What topics are covered? What are the popular (in demand) themes or courses?
In the Spanish Era, the schools focused on Christian Doctrines
Colleges provided physics, chemistry, natural history, and math, theology, philosophy and humanities.
Who teaches? Who is allowed to teach? Who teaches the teachers? How are teachers trained?
The tribal tutors were replaced by the Spanish Missionaries. Education was religion-oriented. It was for the elite, especially in the early years of Spanish colonization.
-Spain introduced the European system of education in the Philippines First schools established were parochial schools, with Spanish missionaries as teachers. Filipino children were taught the Catholic doctrine, the 3 Râs (reading, writing, arithmetic), music, arts and trades
How is teaching (pedagogy) done? What techniques or approaches are dominant?
Modern public school education was introduced in Spain only in 1857.
Teaching was done through the use of phonology
The sound of âllâ and âyâ
Happens in loanwords not in Spanish names with /ll/.
Examples of these are Cordillera (Filipino: Kordilyera), balyena (Spanish: ballena; whale)
sound of [j] examples are kabayo (Spanish: caballo; horse) and sibuyas (Spanish: cebollas; onions).
How is teaching (pedagogy) done? What techniques or approaches are dominant?
The Sound of <z>, <ce>, & <ci>
Common in Andalusian, Canarian, and most Latin American Spanish dialects.
Examples of this are the names Ciriaco [siËrjako], sĂ©dula [Ësedula] (Spanish: cĂ©dula; document; Philippine English: community tax certificate/residence certificate) and sinturĂłn (Spanish: cinturĂłn; belt).
 How is teaching (pedagogy) done? What techniques or approaches are dominant?
The Sound of <j>, <ge>, & <gi>
Non-existent in any of the Philippine languages. In words that carry this grapheme, Filipinos usually realize the sound as [h]. Therefore, names such as 'JosĂ©' are pronounced [hoËse] instead of [xoËse]; [h] is common in Andalusian, Canarian, and some Latin American Spanish dialects.
 How is learning organized or managed? By whom? What are the state policies? How is the matter funded?
 During the Spanish colonial period, the Philippine education was organized by the Spaniards themselves who was funded by the monarchs of Spain. The state policies said that the Filipinos are not to be taught on their mother tongue of Spanish but only tagalog and english.
 What are the outcomes or outputs of the system? Where do the students go after graduation or what do they do?
 Universidad de San Ignacio in Manila
Universidad de San Carlos in Cebu
Universidad de Santo Tomas in Manila
 Universidad de San Felipe de Austria in Manila
Colegio de San José (1601) became the Escuela Municipal (1859, later renamed Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1865, now the Ateneo de Manila University)
Colegio de San Juan de LetrĂĄn in Manila
Modern public school education was introduced in Spain only in 1857
Education served mainly for catechism purposes.
The education of the ilustrados indirectly fuelled the nationalist spirit of the locals toward a reform movement, and consequently a revolution against Spain.
Jose Rizal and other Filipino intellectuals
http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1197/Philippines-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Philippines_during_Spanish_rule
http://www.slideshare.net/ijennaMel/education-in-spanish-era
http://www.slideshare.net/XianahMhari/our-spanish-heritage
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