Journey Towards Basic Education Curricular Reforms:1946-2011

1946-1956

              The establishment of the Commonwealth, called for a reorientation of educational

plans and policies to conform to the requirements of a revised form of government. The 1935 Constitution provided certain educational objectives such as the development of moral, character, personal discipline, civic conscience, vocational efficiency and citizenship training. To carry out the Constitutional mandate a revision of the elementary curriculum was made to include the teaching of the National Language obligatory. It was first offered as a subject in 1939-194o in the public schools. Before the Commonwealth no effort was made to give importance to the native dialects for it was believed that English should be the basic official language. With full autonomy given to the Commonwealth government, there was a need to make Filipino pupils and students aware of learning a common native

tongue.