In Jonathan Smith’s Relating Religion‚ he talks about the Europeans coming to America and changing their way of life. The indigenous people being conquered and having to adapt the way of life of the conquerors. An example of this was shown by the annexation of the Philippines after the Philippine American War. The Philippine people had not been independent for some time and the Americans had been not let that happen either. The way Smith explains the Europeans taking over the Native Americans is
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CHAPTER 9 THE PHILIPPINE SOCIETY UNDER THE AMERICAN RULE Having proclaimed that the Philippines will be kept by the United States‚ President McKinley started the task of governing the colony. In his address before the 4th session of the 76th U.S. Congress‚ McKinley stated America’s aims concerning the Philippines. “The Philippines is ours not to exploit‚ but to develop‚ civilize‚ educate‚ and to train in the science of self-government.” In his instructions to the First and Second Philippine
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Pre-Spanish Period *with existence of schools called BOTHOAN (in Panay); teachers were priests‚ priestesses‚ judges; materials – documents‚ manuscripts‚ book of ritual and magic‚ genealogies‚ calendars‚ impt. Laws and records of notable events *Literary forms: sayings‚ lyrics‚ legends‚ epics‚ proverbs‚ riddles‚ ritualistic utterances (on simple life experiences) *Sample epics: Hinilawod (Panay) Hudhud and Alim (Ifugao) Darangen (Maranaw) *Characteristics of literary works:
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INTRODUCTION The Philippines ranks a poor seventh among the nine South East Asian countries in terms of education. One of the measures Academic performance is a way wherein a person excels in terms of school requirements‚ tasks‚ awards and achievements. Academic performance was measured in society in many ways (Frias‚ 2000). Self-concept is ubiquitous and an integral part of any learning situation. It plays an inevitable part of both outcome and condition of learning whether the teacher is
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LEXICOGRAPHY AND THE DESCRIPTION OF PHILIPPINE ENGLISH VOCABULARY Historical sources show that Filipino words began to be borrowed into the English of the American colonizers at a very early stage in the colonial period. Today‚ the English used in the Philippines has a distinctive localized vocabulary which finds expression in a range of settings‚ including government‚ education‚ and the media as well as the personal domain. Describing the vocabulary of new Englishes(Lado) In the academic
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Why America Took Over the Philippines America had to keep them out of rivals hands‚ Christianize them and thought that they were ’unfit’ to rule themselves. President McKinley who was the current president at that time tells us himself why the USA colonised the Philippines‚ “(1) That we could not give them (i.e. the Philippines) back to Spain - that would be cowardly and dishonourable; (2) that we could not turn them over to France and Germany - our commercial rivals in the Orient - that would be
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Education in the Philippines changed radically‚ and was before patterned from both of educational systems of Spain and the United States. However‚ after the liberation of the Philippines in 1946‚ Filipinos then had moved in various directions of its own. Elementary and high school education is compulsory‚ and is administered nationally by the Department of Education‚ along with the assurance of funding for school services and equipments‚ recruitment of teachers for all public schools‚ and the supervising
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Education in the Philippines Education in the Philippines is based on the education system of the United States‚ with some variations. Generally‚ compulsory elementary education runs for 6 years‚ while secondary education takes 4 years. After high school there are vocational courses or colleges which offer courses for a varying number of years depending on the course. University courses leading to a bachelor’s degree are usually 4 years long. The school year‚ which is at least 200 days or 40 weeks
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History Historical Perspective of the Philippine Educational System Education in the Philippines has undergone several stages of development from the pre-Spanish times to the present. In meeting the needs of the society‚ education serves as focus of emphases/priorities of the leadership at certain periods/epochs in our national struggle as a race. As early as in pre-Magellanic times‚ education was informal‚ unstructured‚ and devoid of methods. Children were provided more vocational training and
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Angelika T. Pastorfide Alex Carl L. Ng 2 – Chemistry Who are we Filipinos? Many of us didn’t know who are we and where we came from. From the quote “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known”‚ it says that we‚ Filipinos don’t have any original identity‚ our identity‚ like the political‚ social‚ economical‚ and cultural that we have today‚ came up from the colonization of the other country‚ like Spain‚ America‚ and Japan. Before the colonization of Spain
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