STS 1 Lesson 2 : SCIENCE,

TECHNOLOGY, AND NATION

BUILDING
Historical Background of S & T in the Philippines

PRE-SPANISH
- Agriculture
- Movement of Heavenly Bodies
- Technology in building
houses, irrigations & developing
tools 2
 Historical Background of S & T in the Philippines

PRE-SPANISH
- Tools in planting, hunting,
cooking and fishing
- tools for fighting and musical
instruments
- tools for transportation 3
PRE-SPANISH
- Different archaeological artifacts
- Sophisticated designs of gold and silver jewelry, ceramics and
metal tools.
- Tradings with China, Indonesia, Japan and other nearby
countries – cultural and technological exchange.

SPANISH
- School for boys and girls
- formal science and technology

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 - Learning is focused on different concepts related to the
human body, plants, animals, and heavenly bodies.
- Modernized living , adapting some Western technology and
their ways of life.
- Indigenous materials
- Medicine and advanced science were introduced in formal
colleges and universities.
- Galleon trade
- Trained students from other countries.

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AMERICAN
- Public education system
- Improved the engineering works and health conditions of the
people.
- UP was established
- Public hospitals
- Mineral resources were explored and exploited.
- Transportation and communication system was improved.
- Learning of science were introduced in the curriculum.

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 - Researchs were done to control malaria, cholera, and
tuberculosis and other tropical diseases.
- Human resources / American scholars
- Protestant Church missions
WORLD WAR II
- Destabilization

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Internal Influences
• Survival
• Culture
• Economic
Activities

Development of S
& T in the Phil
External Influences
• Foreign
Colonizers
• Trades w/ foreign
countries
• International
Economic

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 GOVERNMENT POLICIES ON S & T

CLUSTER 1: SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES,

INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE
• Integrating ASEAN awareness in basic education without adding to
the curriculum
• Emphasizing teaching in the mother tongue
• Developing school infrastructure and providing for ICT broadband
• Local food security

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CLUSTER 2 : PHYSICS, ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL
RESEARCH, EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES AND
MATHEMATICS
• Emphasizing degrees, licences, and employment opportunities
• Outright grants for peer monitoring
• Review of R.A. 9184
• Harnessing science and technology as an independent mover of
development

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CLUSTER 3 : MEDICAL, CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL
SCIENCES
• Ensuring compliance of drug-manufacturing firms with ASEAN –
harmonized standards by full implementation of the Food and Drug
Administration
• Creating an education council dedicated to standardization of
pharmaceutical services and care
• Empowering food and drug agencies to conduct evidence-based
research as proof of information

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CLUSTER 3 : MEDICAL, CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL
SCIENCES, continued…

• Allocating two percent of the GDP to research

• Legislating a law supporting human genome projects.

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CLUSTER 4 : BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AGRICULTURE AND
FORESTRY
• Protecting and conserving biodiversity by full implementation of
existing laws
• Use of biosafety and standard model by ASEAN countries
• Promoting indigenous knowledge systems and indigenous
peoples’s conservation
• Formulation of common food and safety standards.

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 DOST PROGRAMS

• Providing funds for basic research and patents

• Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate studies students
• More branches of PSHS
• S & T parks
• Balik Scientists Program
• National Science Complex and National Engineering Complex at
UP

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 PAASE PROGRAMS

• National Centers of Excellence

• Manpower and Institutional Development Programs (ESEP)
• Regional Centers
• S & T Business Centers
• Strengthening Science Education

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 EDUCATION

• Special Science Classes

• K-12 strand’s like STEM
• CHED’s PICARI – Philippine- California Advanced Research
Institutes.

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 RESEARCH FOCUS

• Use of alternative and safe energy

• Harnessing mineral resources
• Finding cure for various disease and illness
• Climate change and global warming
• Increasing food production
• Preservation of natural resources
• Coping with natural disaster and calamities
• Infrastructure

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 10 FAMOUS FILIPINO SCIENTISTS

1. RAMON CABANOS BARBA – tissue culture in Philippine

Mangoes.

2. JOSEFINO CASAS COMISO – Antartica’s characteristics using

satellite images.

3. JOSE BEJAR CRUZ JR – famous in the field of Electrical

Engineering, an officer of IE3

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4. LOURDES JANSUY CRUZ – sea snail venom

5. FABIAN MILLAR DAYRIT – herbal medicine

6. RAFAEL DINEROS GUERRERO III – tilapia culture

7. ENRIQUE MAPUA OSTREA JR. – meconium drugs testing

8. LILIAN FORMALEJO PATENA – plant biotechnology

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9. MARI – JO PANGANIBAN RUIZ – graph theorist

10. GREGORY LIGOT TANGONAN – communication

technology

* CAESAR A. SALOMA – internationally renowed physicist

* EDGARDO GOMEZ and ANGEL ALCALA– marine

science

* WILLIAM PADOLINA – Chemist, president of NAST 20

The University Philippines- Los Banos is a
science paradise for agriculture , forestry, plant
and animal science, and veterinary science. It
has produced numerous scientists and research
in the fields mentioned.
The University of the Philippines- Visayas- is
also a national center for marine
science,fisheries, and other related sciences .

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The University of the Philippines- Manila is a
center of excellence and has produced many
researches, doctors, health professionals, and
scientist in the area of medical and public
health.
The University of the Philippines- Diliman also
has established a national science and
engineering complex to develop more research
and produce more scientists and engineers.
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 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

• Science Schools in the Philippines

• Philippine Science High School System
• Philippines Science High School System (PSHSS)
- A government program for gifted students in the
Phils.
- Service institute of DOST
- Free scholarship (Rep. Act 3661)
- With dormitory for its students
 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Special Science Elementary Schools (SSES)Project

• Special Science Elementary Schools
(SSES)Project
- DepEd Order No. 73 s.2008
- DepEd Order No. 51 s.2010
- In June 2007 with 57 identified elementary
schools
- Science and Health subject is taught in
Grades 1 to 3 with 70 minutes, grades 4 to 6
 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Quezon City Regional Science High

School
 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Quezon City Regional Science High School

- Established on Sept 17, 1967
- For talented students in science and
mathematics
- Well supported by the local govt.and by the
PTA
 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Manila Science High School

- Established in Oct 1, 1963
- First science high school in the Phil
- Aims to produce scientist with souls
- Producing outstanding alumni and for winning
 SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Central Visayan Institute Foundation

- Home and pioneer of the prominent school-
based innovation known as the Dynamic
Learning Program (DLP)
- Takes pride in its Research Center for
Theoretical Physics (RCTP) established in 1992