Makabayan

MAKABAYAN
 a new learning area that integrates several subjects with the goal of helping each Filipino to
develop healthy personal and national identity.
MAKABAYAN as a learning area

 It is said to be a “laboratory of life or a practice environment.
 It is the learning area that provides the Filipino learner the quality time to demonstrate
practical knowledge and skills of empathy, vocational efficiency and problem solving in daily
life.
 Love of country serves as the unifying principle for the diverse values in this learning area,
thus it is called pagkakabayan or makabayan for short.
 Provides the balance as it addresses primarily societal needs. This is where the learner can
apply practical knowledge and life skills and demonstrate deeper appreciation of Filipino
culture. Thus, it emphasizes the development of self-reliant and patriotic citizens as well as
the development of critical and creative thinking.
 Shall feature a stronger integration of competencies and values within and across its
learning area component and the tool learning areas. It shall use integrative teaching
approaches where appropriate and relevant for a more holistic learning.
The GOAL of MAKABAYAN

 to develop the personal, social and work special skills of learners especially their
interpersonal skills, empathy with other cultures, vocational efficiency, problem-solving, and
decision-making in daily life, that is, to develop socio-cultural and political-economic
literacy.
 The need to empower Filipino learners for lifelong learning as this would allow them to best
confront the challenges post by the changing social forces.
The OBJECTIVES of MAKABAYAN

 Develop cerebral competence and skills that are basic to literacy, productivity and
entrepreneurship.
 Nurture desirable values that help one come up with appropriate assessment and
judgment.
 Provide guidance in the development of a balanced personality.
 Equip learners with essential training for self-empowerment, leadership, responsible
citizenship and intelligent fellowship.
 Introduce programs/activities that will develop students’ appreciation for and potentials in
sports.
 Provide opportunities from discover and development of talents in arts, music, and
literature.
 Guide students in the selection of their profession or vocation.
 Help train future teachers by serving as cooperating school for the College of Education.
The rationale behind the revision of the education curriculum and the introduction of MAKABAYAN.
 Connect related subjects from the different learning areas.
 Improved the positive outlook towards work to increase productivity and lead to a peaceful
country.
 Increase each individual’s ability to cope in fast changing world.
 Create multi-faceted basic education teachers.
 Reduce the congestion of subject offered in basic education.
 Reduce the hiring of teachers if one is able to teach different learning areas.
 Increase the importance of the arts, music, sports, dance and other aspects of Philippine
culture.
 Develop nationalism among the Filipinos and increase individual responsibility as a citizen.
Subject Components of MAKABAYAN

Social studies
 This subject covers Philippine history and government, Asian studies, world history and
economics
Geography and History
 It focuses on the geographical features of the Philippine as part of Southeast Asia and the
world, use of natural resources, and the relationship of physical geography to local culture.
Civics and Culture
 Student engage in character-building activities, develop good behavior, and are taught
values such as love of country, good citizenship, respect for one’s culture heritage, and
being pro-Filipino.
 Also introduce to basic health knowledge, healthy practices, and simple scientific skills such
as observing, and describing interaction with their environment.
Technology and home economics and livelihood
 This component includes home economics, agriculture and fisheries industrial arts, and
entrepreneurship.
Music and arts
 These aim to develop learners’ personal, social and aesthetic skills and values. The subject
covers the study of elements and styles of music learned through listening, singing, playing,
reading and creating. Philippine and foreign music and visual art materials are used to
deepen understanding of musical and artistic ideas and values. The visual arts involve
drawing, painting and making two – and three-dimensional art.
Physical and health education
 Physical Education
- This aims to physically and athletically develop learners through physical exercise,
games, sports and dance.
 Health
- This develops the learners’ ability to attain and maintain holistic health (physical, mental
and interpersonal) and includes education on population, drugs and safety.
Values Education
 This subject aims to form self-identity and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to
discern, analyze, discuss, compare and select values in real-life situations. The subject is
taught through experiential learning and integrative teaching. The teacher guides students
to discover, analyze, select and adopt values and discuss them in an atmosphere of
dialogue, freedom and openness.
The MAKABAYAN DECALOGUE

1. Makabayan is a work in progress not a completed work
- It should be a community-based.
- Strictly speaking that there is no makabayan, but there are MAKABAYANS.
- There should be an integration of lesson take place.
- Schools designs makabayan according to the changing needs of its students and the
community to which it belongs.
Conclusion: if the community change, there should be change.
2. Makabayan is a work in progress from below, not from above.
- Because no human being can possibly understand all the aspects of makabayan from
cooking to car, repair to website design to martial arts to all sort of other intelligences,
skills and knowledge areas.
- No one in the central office of Department of Education can dictate what the individual
schools need to do
Take note: The content of makabayan has to come from the school themselves not
from any central office.
3. Makabayan is our responsibility, not that DEPEd.
- Because the human beings we are educating are our own children or the children of our
neighbors, we are responsible for the content of makabayan.
- And we know what we want our children to become
4. Makabayan, like the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC)
- The idea of makabayan is to integrate previously distinct subjects, not merely to put
together mechanically.
5. Makabayan has the psychomotor objective of engaging the multiple intelligences of
students.
- Most schools now realize that makabayan does not address merely the cognitive
aspect of human being.
- Teachers must integrate physical involvement of students to the lesson.
6. Makabayan has the cognitive objective of acquainting students with the way the human
body works in the context of human society.
- The object of study in makabayan is the human body that students have to study the
way the human being depends for its very existence on the way society is structured.
7. Makabayan has the affective objective of socializing students in the context of their
generation.
- All education is meant to train students to live as adults. They will become adults only in
the future , not today.
- Students must learn how to socialize and interact in their own pace.
8. Makabayan is the content part of the BEC for which Filipino, English, Math and Science are
tools.
- The other four learning areas in the curriculum are merely tool subjects. They are
means to an end. The end is makabayan and it pertains to what life is really all about.
9. Makabayan prepares students for the long term goal of lifelong learning and short term goal
of earning a livelihood
- Makabayan is a skill course. That the content must be taught with practical end in vie to
allow students to find a livelihood a; entrepreneurs, managers or employees.
10. Makabayan is the HEART of the BEC
- The curriculum exist for only one purpose to prepare students to become adults.
- The four tool subject train, but MAKABAYAN educates students.
SUMMARY
Makabayan is a learning area that provide essential training for every individual to become
more competitive being, in dealing with the different aspects of life. Shapes every Filipino to turn
into an active citizen in the cimmunity.
It is important for us citizen of the society to have deeper understanding about the real life concept.
To become more responsible to our duties. And it serve as a guide for us to be more productive as
well as equipped individual.
REFLECTION
As a future educator it is important for me to know better the significance of makabayan as
learning area, because the course content of the subject is more values education and deal with
life realities, that a learner should have and learn. It is my role and responsibility to integrate
makabayan into the different learning areas taught in school.
To inculcate to them the essentiality of the subject because it is a big help for them to improve their
ability’s, skills and competencies. And part of it, is to develop nationalism among Filipinos and to
prepare students to become adult, because MAKABAYAN stand to educates students

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MAKABAYAN as a learning area

The GOAL of MAKABAYAN

The OBJECTIVES of MAKABAYAN

Subject Components of MAKABAYAN

The MAKABAYAN DECALOGUE

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