Indigenous Curriculum
a productof a vision to make
curriculum relevant and responsive
to the needs and context of
indigenous people
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Indigenous Curriculum
The Author'searlier studies on indigenous
curriculum provided a framework for linking
indigenous knowledge with the curriculum and
provided several dimensions that serve as a
framework for the development of an indigenous
curriculum:
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Indigenous Curriculum
• Constructknowledge
• Use instructional strategies
• Integrate contents and activities
• Utilize community's cultural, material, and human
resources
Indigenous Curriculum
1. Integratingcontents and activities
that reflect the learners' culture, history,
traditions, and indigenous knowledge in
the curriculum
Indigenous Curriculum
In thePhilippines
The Department of Education (DepEd) has
initiated the development of education
curriculum that was designed to meet the
learning needs of the indigenous peoples
(IPs) communities.
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Indigenous Curriculum
In thePhilippines
Through DepEd's Bureau of Alternat Learning
System (BALS), the Alternative Learning
System (ALS) Curriculum for IPs was
developed in response to the Education For All
(EFA) campaign to provide the basic learning
needs of all marginalized learners.
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Indigenous Curriculum
In thePhilippines
The IP Education Curriculum for the was developed
in the year 2006 in coordination with National
Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and was
validated by various indigenous cultural communities
in the Philippines. The IP Curriculum is to be
implemented by trained ALS implementers with IP
learners.
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Indigenous curriculum
The learningcompetencies of the IP Curriculum were drawn from the
existi ALS Curriculum for the basic literacy, elementary and secondary
levels. The curriculum content, however, was based on the Indigenous
People Rights Act (IPRA) or Republic Act (RA) NO. 8371.
The education goal of the IP Curriculum is the attainment of the
functional literacy for the IPs.
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The IP Curriculumreflects the core areas of the IPs Concerns such as t
following:
a. Family Life It touches on the life of an IP as a member of the family from
birth to death.
b. Health, Sanitation and Nutrition This brings into fore the IPs concept of self
and the environment and how each interplays with the other.
Indigenous curriculum
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c. Civic ConsciousnessIt highlights the rich worldview of the IPs
ranging from their life ways, identity and history.
d. Economics and Income It presents
the system of community management of supply and demand
among the IPs.
Indigenous curriculum
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e. Environment Itdeals with the
IPs communion with nature. It
stresses their strong attachment
to the environment.
Indigenous curriculum
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Caine and Caine(1997) considered curriculum and
instruction from a brain-based approach. They begin
with brain-mind learning principles derived from
brain research findings and apply these principles in
the classroom and in designing a curriculum. These
principles are:
Brain-based Curriculum
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• The brainis a whole system and includes
physiology, emotions, imagination, and
predisposition. These must all be considered as a
whole.
• The brain develops in relationship to interactions
with the environment and with others.
Brain-based Curriculum
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• A qualityof being human is the search for
personal meaning.
• People create meaning through perceiving certain
patterns of understanding.
• Emotions are critical to the patterns people
perceive.
Brain-based Curriculum
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• The brainprocesses information into
both parts and wholes at the same time.
• Learning includes both focused
attention and peripheral input.
Brain-based Curriculum
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• Learning isboth unconscious and
conscious.
• Information (meaningful and
fragmented) is organized differently
in memory
Brain-based Curriculum
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• The brainmakes an optimal number of
connections in a supportive but challenging
environment; however, when there are
perceptions of threat, the brain may inhibit
learning.
Brain-based Curriculum
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• Every brainis unique
in its organization.
Brain-based Curriculum
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Caine and Caine(1997)-
-a prominent advocates in Abrain-based
education.
-considered curriculum and instruction from a
brain-approach.
-they begin with brain-mind learning principles.
Brain-based Curriculum
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Resnick (1997)-
-theorized thatlearners learn more if they are
given several ways to look a problem, if they
are asked to give more than one way of
solving it.
Brain-based Curriculum
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Brain- based curriculum
Sylwester(1995)-
-pointed out that the classrooms in the future may focus more on drawing
out existing abilities.
-encouraging the personal construction of categories rather than categoral
systems.
-emphasizing the individual.