1. KUH LEA D. FERNANDEZ SOCIAL DIMENSION
BEED III-HS ACTIVITY # 1
“How do consensus and conflict theories
influenced the teaching profession?”
According to my interviewee, Mr. Ryan Dale Egipto, there so
many instances that affect his work by Conflict Theory, in a way
that in the advent of new curriculum, (K to 12 Program); energetic
yet hyperactive learners, emergence of new policies or laws
regarding child-rearing and discipline and some other more: open-
mindedness is needed. All mentioned above create conflicts to the
conflicting minds of Filipinos: professionals, common people,
educated and non-educated. In Conflict Theory for some teachers
for example, you a have a students’ that are rich and also you have
a students’ that are not too rich, all the favors of you was only at
your students which is rich. In this situation there is an
inequality between the students because in conflict theory the
more you richer the more you have the power, it is all about class
conflict.
In the consensus theory, CHANGES. This very word is the
major fear of most Filipinos. Why? Filipinos are naturally
resistant to changes. According to Psychologists, it takes twenty-
one days to learn a new habit. It shows that, we learn habit by
practice. “We are what we habitually do” Confucius said. It needs
openness and acceptance. But on others, agreement to the ideas of

2. others is an adventure. Some will subject themselves to getting-to-
know-how practice. But before somebody will fully submit himself
to certain change, it will take a lot of effort in learning new
things. Not in answering the why’s and how’s but in pacifying your
PURPOSE for change. In Consensus Theory, for example he has
students that are hard to speak straight tagalog and hard to adapt
the new environment because he came from the province, so him as
a teacher is the one who make more adjustment.
In the end, what we want is what we get. Because NEED is
sometimes forget and neglected and most of the times, set aside
for WANT. We are not only entitled to our opinions and ideas, it is
a gift from the Almighty. To choose what we tend to believe what
we want whatever the end result- good or bad.
For me as a future mentor, the conflict theory is a struggle
or battles, meaning to say that sometimes there have a destructive
effect between the classes, or groups of students. This is why the
Conflict Theory stresses the humans or the people because of lot of
things which includes a social class and there is an agreement
among the members of a particular society about norms, values,
rules and regulations, to come into collision be in mutual opposition
clash, and they have a different ways. Consensus Theory on the
other hand is a collective opinion or general agreement about
society functions by all parts working together to wake a society.