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Gene Khyle Francis Uy Galvez, Mapúa University, PhilippinesAbstract
Developing a curriculum for a culturally and linguistically diverse nation such as the Philippine archipelago has proven to be difficult. Over the years, many have criticized the curriculum for being over-congested and irrelevant to the issues and demands of the present world. This is compounded by a lack of basic literacy and twenty-first-century skills among basic education learners. Various reforms have been initiated to develop the foundational skills among learners. This includes the K-12 curriculum, which extended the existing ten-year curriculum into a thirteen-year curriculum. However, the K-12 curriculum was proven to be inefficient for many Filipinos who favored the shorter curriculum. Many even deem the curriculum to have failed to prepare students for either work or higher education, both of which were promised by the new curriculum. In the first place, what should have been the goals for a basic education curriculum? This question was front and center as the new Matatag curriculum was crafted early this year. This curriculum aimed to focus on foundational skills and decongestion, yet these solutions have already been proposed in the previous curriculum. Given various solutions to the educational crisis, this paper aims to articulate the problems in previous curricula and compare them with the solutions offered by the curriculum. Moreover, this research seeks to lay the groundwork for research and evaluation of the Philippine curriculum, especially given the novelty of the 2024 Matatag Curriculum.
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Conference: ACE2025Stream: International Education
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Galvez G. (2026) In an Educational Kaleidoscope World: Philippine Curricula, Its Problems, and a Proposed Evaluation Framework ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 989-1000) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.77
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.77
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