Phases of Adult Education in the Philippines

BRIEF HISTORY AND LEGAL

BASES OF ADULT AND

COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND

NONFORMAL EDUCATION

Presented By:

ARJEL A. DIONGSON

PHASES OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

1st PHASE (SPANISH REGIME)

The “comedia” or “moro-moro”, the “duplo”, “balagtasan”, and “passion chanting” provided occasions for popular gathering which resembled the “open air schools” for the masses.

These occassions served as factors for the literacy and cultural improvement of the people.


2nd PHASE Took the form of the popular civico-

educational lectures which started about 7 years after the implantation of the American civil regime in the Philippines.

The majority of the Filipino farmers had but little knowledge of advanced farming and that the masses in general had no adequate conception of the value of keeping their surroundings in a sanitary condition.


2nd PHASE The Director of Education believed

that much good could be accomplished if some means could be used to reach those people of the Islands who where too old to attend schools.

May 21, 1908 – The Philippine Assembly passed Act No. 1829 which provided for a system of popular civico educational lectures which to be conducted in the municipalities especially in barrios and sitios.


2nd PHASE 1912 – approximately 522, 474

people attended the civico-educational lectures.


3rd PHASE Was undertaken by the National

Supreme Council – an organization founded in 1926 by the different political parties for the purpose of presenting a solid stand against the reactionary administration of Governor-General Leonard Wood.

The late Pres. Quezon, disturbed over the fact that 50.8% of our people in that year were illiterate, emphatically declared the necessity of waging a total war against illiteracy

“Our Country must have a wholly literate population,

because only on the foundation of an

intelligent public opinion can we build the structure

of liberty and sound government”.