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From Reconstructing Culture to Re-learning Culture: A Historical Survey of Education in the Cordillera

Maria Nela B. Florendo

Discipline: History

 

Abstract:

We often associate education with academic institutions and earning academic degrees. In fact we have differentiated between formal and non-formal education; the former refers to academic programs and the latter to vocational programs. Almost everyone wishes to complete an academic program. Such notion of education has become a yardstick for status, progress, and even civilization. Our concept of education is a product of a long history of contacts and transformation of mental structures.

 

This paper is a general historical survey of education in the Cordillera. It attempts to address the question: what role has education played among the indigenous peoples of the Cordillera?