Curriculum Design of Preservice Teacher Education for Indigenization of Elementary School Science in the Philippines

This paper presents proposed changes in the pre-service teacher education program for the development of skills for indigenization of elementary school science. The proposal emphasizes the need for the development of more specific competence for teaching science to indigenous people or diverse culture. There should be conscious effort to develop awareness of one’s attitude towards ethnocultural groups in the foundation courses (sociology, philosophy and psychology). Moreover, there’s also a need to develop skills in designing instruction, developing instructional materials using local materials to make science teaching relevant to the indigenous people and learners of diverse culture. It is also important that field experience in schools with indigenous people and diverse culture be integrated in the program.