SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

AND NATION-BUILDING
CHAPTER 3
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this chapter, the students should be
able to:
1. Explainhow early Filipinos applied scientific
principles in their daily living.
2. Presentgovernment policies on science and
technology and explain their importance to the
nation; and
3. Discuss
the role of science and technology in
nation-building.
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
1. MEDICINE
2. FARMING AND ANIMAL
RAISING
3. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
4. ENGINEERING
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
1. MEDICINE
- Prayers and rituals (oration and
paganism)
- Herbs and plants
- Manual transportation of patients
- No laboratories to use for diagnosis.
- Diseases are caused by evil spirits and
curses.
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
2. FARMING AND ANIMAL RAISING
- Manual ways of raising animals
- Use of carabao and manual process of
farming
- “paghahalaman” at “paghahayupan”
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
3. MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
- Animals
- Balsa
- walking
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD
4. ENGINEERING
- The Banawe Rice Terraces (manual rice
planting)
- Irrigation system
- “bukal” and “balon”
COLONIAL PERIOD
COLONIAL PERIOD
1.MEDICINE
2.INFRASTRUCTURE
3.ECONOMIC LEVELS
4.EDUCATION
COLONIAL PERIOD
1. MEDICINE
- Building hospitals (Americans)
- Introduction of laboratories and medical
tools.
- Synthetic capsules and tablet for
medicine was introduced.
- Medical doctors and health practitioners
was also introduced to people.
COLONIAL PERIOD
2. INFRASTRUCTURE
- Walls, roads bridges and other large
infrastructures were built using
engineering skills of the Spaniards.
- Houses and establishments are well
designed and detailed.
- Use of machines
COLONIAL PERIOD
3. EDUCATION
- Construction of schools and universities.
- People are encouraged to study (esp.
American era)
- Use of machines
American occupation modernized almost
all aspects of life in the Philippines.
- Establishment of Bureau of Science
POST-COLONIAL
PERIOD
POST- COLONIAL PERIOD

The creation of PAG-ASA

(Weather Bureau) and
DOST (National Science
and Technology)
POST- COLONIAL PERIOD
- Creation of different
government organizations and
departments that will expand
the horizon of the Filipino
people regarding science.
QUESTIONS:
1. What do you think are the major
contributions of S and T to Philippine
nation building?
2. What specific government policy do
you like the most in terms of
contributing to the development of S
and T in the Philippines.
QUESTIONS:
3. What policies do you want the
government to implement in the
near future?