2. What is Education?
Education is the social institution
through which society provides its
members with important knowledge,
including basic facts, job skills, and
cultural norms and values (Macionis,
2012).
3. Education in the Philippines
• Education in the Philippines is managed and regulated by the
Department of Education, commonly referred to as the DepEd.
• It controls the Philippine educational system, including the
creation and implementation of the curriculum and the
utilization of funds allotted by the national government.
• It also manages the construction of schools, the acquisition of
books and other school materials, and the recruitment of
teachers and staff.
5. FORMAL EDUCATION
• This refers to the hierarchically structured,
chronologically graded educational system
from primary school to the university,
including programs and institutions for full-
time technical and vocational training.
6. A. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
• Elementary education involves compulsory, formal
education primarily concerned with providing basic
education, and usually corresponds to traditional six
grades or seven grades, and in addition, to preschool
programs.
7. B. SECONDARY EDUCATION
• Secondary education, public schools and private
schools, is concerned primarily with continuing basic
education of the elementary level and expanding it to
include the learning of employable, gainful skills,
usually corresponding to four years of junior high
school and two years of senior high school.
8. C. TERTIARY EDUCATION
• Institutions of higher education may be classified as
either public or private college or university, and
public institutions of higher education may further be
subdivided into two types: state universities and
colleges and local colleges and universities.
9. NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
• It refers to any organized educational activity
outside the established formal system to
provide selected types of learning to a
segment of the population.
10. INFORMAL EDUCATION
• It is a lifelong process whereby every
individual acquires from daily experiences,
attitudes, values, facts, skills, and knowledge
or motor skills from resources in his or her
higher environment.
11. SPECIAL EDUCATION
• SPED aims to develop the maximums
potential of the child with the special needs
to enable him/her to become self-reliant and
take advantage of the opportunities for a full
and happy life.
13. 1. PRODUCTIVE CITIZENRY
• Education systems enable citizens to be productive
members of society, as they are equipped with knowledge
and skills that could contribute to the development of their
society's systems and institutions.
• This highlights the importance of formal and non-formal
education in the development of oneself and society.
14. 2. SELF-ACTUALIZATION
• Education develops one's sense of self
• As a huge part of the discovery process of oneself
education encourages having the vision to become self-
actualized.
15. OTHER MOST IMPORTANT
OBJECTIVES OF EDUCATION ARE:
• Teaching basic skills, such as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
• Helping children develop skills in abstract thinking and problem-solving.
• Transmitting the cultural heritage, from which individual may develop an
appreciation of their society.
• Communicating to children the basic values of the society.
