HISTORICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION
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Overview
The beliefs and experiences of education
today rest on the history of this field of
endeavor. This reflects that the reference of
today’s education was the learning of
yesterday.
Early
educational systems
became the prototypes of the present
educational systems of the world. Learning
methods and techniques alter and evolve
continuously from time to time.
HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
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Primitive
Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Medieval
Renaissance and Naturalism
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
1.
Primitive Education
Primitive or tribal education was not
consciously conceived nor planned. The different
aspects of education were only undertaken
according to the needs of the people and the
requirements of the situations. The following are
the aims of primitive education:
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Security and Survival
Conformity
Preservation and Transmission of Tradition
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The following are the types of
education during the primitive period:
Vocational and Domestic Training
This includes learning the skills in
procuring basic necessities of life like
hunting, constructing a hut, and the like.
 Religious (Animistic)
Religious
education
consisted
in
learning how to participate in ritualistic
practices to please or to appease the
unseen spirits roaming around.
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Egyptian Education
 Egyptian Education was both
cultural to preserve and perpetuate
culture and utilitarian to transfer
skills from father to son.
 Education for women was
vocational and the boys were
trained by scribes who taught them
how to read and write.
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Greek Education
 Greek Education was training for
powerful body of soldiers (Spartan)
and
individual
excellence
(Athenian).
 Content of education was reading,
writing, music, poetry, and dancing.
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Roman Education
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Roman Education was the development
of good citizen, good soldier, and good
worker.
Content of education were laws of the
Twelve
Tables,
Roman
history,
procedures of court and the senate,
conduct of war, business, agriculture,
sports and used of weapons.
Girls were taught for domestic life and
religious functions.
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Medieval Education
 Medieval Education was more on
the teaching of Jesus Christ which
is universal and democratic.
 Methods
of
teaching
were
conversational method, and gnomic
or the used of the proverbs and
parable.
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HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS
Renaissance to Naturalism
 Renaissance
to
Naturalism
in
education includes literary and
aesthetic, religious, moral, and
social education.
 Methods include reading, studying
each pupil individually, inductive
teaching and reasoning.
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