UNIVERSITY OF BOHOL

City of Tagbilaran

 

Graduate School

 

COURSE SYLLABUS

in

 

MAEM 203

(Trends and Issues in Education)

 

 

COURSE NUMBER

:

MAEM 203

 

COURSE TITLE

:

Trends and Issues in Education

 

CREDIT UNIT

:

3 units

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

:

This  course updates the students on the trends and issues in

education in the global perspective, It studies on how one

country’s policies and trends influenced or has given impact

to other countries’ educational system.

 

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

:

1. Know and understand the trends and issues of education in the global perspective.

 

2. Identify which of the trends can be benchmarked in the educational structure of the Philippines.

 

 

COURSE CONTENT:

 

Trends and Issues related to:

 

I.          Curriculum and Learning Structure

1.      Early childhood Education

2.      Elementary Education

3.      Secondary Education

4.      Higher Education

5.      Special Education

6.      Adult Education / Non-Formal Education

 

 

II.        Multi - Cultural Education  - culturally related pedagogies

1.      Classroom techniques

2.      Cross-cultural trainings

3.      Student characteristics

4.      Classroom Discipline Policies

 

III.       Instructional Design, Technology and Approaches

IV.       Public Education Policies

V.        Literacy Instruction

VI.       Laws on Children

VII.     Second Language Teaching and Learning

VIII.    Labor Market Development-Impact to Education

IX.       Instruction and Curriculum

1.      Content-based

2.      Learner-based

3.      Outcome-based

 

 

 

ASSESSMENT / EVALUATION:

- Reports

- Reaction Paper

- Focused Questions

 

 

REFERENCES:

 

     Doronilla, Ma Luisa et al. The Philippine Educational System. Katha

Publishing Co., Inc. Quezon City, 2000 (1 cp.)

 

      Gonzales, Andrew, FSC Educational Crossroads. The Philippine Journal of

Education, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, January 2002

 

      Land, Ray. Educational Development: discourse, identity and practice.

England: Open University Press, c 2004.

 

       Nelson, Jack L. Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialetics. 5th

Edition. Boston: Mcgraw-Hill, c 2004

 

       Vergel, Virgilio, Decade of Outcome in Philippines Educational System. The

Modern Teacher, Vol XLVIII, No. 9, February 2001.

 

       Critical Issues in Early Childhood Education. England: Open University

Press, c 2005

 

       Issues and Trends in Literacy Education. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c 2000.

 

       Daily Newspapers, Magazines, Periodicals

 

       Dep Ed Division Circulars and Memoranda

 

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