Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte has let the specialists within the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Curriculum and Teaching strand to reply questions concerning the proposal to alter the time period “Diktadurang Marcos” to only “Diktadura” within the Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan curriculum.
“They can argue with the education experts inside the Curriculum and Teaching stand of the Department of Education because it was the education experts who decided the direction in teaching,” Duterte instructed GMA Regional TV One Mindanao in a combination of English and Bisaya, based on a report on Unang Balita on Wednesday.
DepEd Bureau of Curriculum and Teaching director Joyce Andaya on Monday confirmed that there was certainly a letter from a number of specialists from the company’s Bureau of Curriculum Development directing the removing of Marcos’ title from the time period “Diktadurang Marcos.”
Andaya, nonetheless, clarified that the advice will nonetheless bear the vetting course of through the pilot implementation of the revised Okay-10 curriculum this yr. She mentioned that DepEd has but to provide you with a consensus on what ought to seem within the remaining curriculum doc which will probably be uploaded in its official web site.
Several lecturers teams have denounced the transfer to alter the time period “Diktadurang Marcos,” with Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Representative and House deputy minority chief France Castro saying it was an “attempt to erase the culpability” and “deodorize” the title of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Andaya had refuted claims that there was an intention for historic revisionism or whitewashing the reality that occurred throughout martial regulation period.
She additionally mentioned that there is no such thing as a political strain from the present administration to suggest the removing of the title “Marcos” from the “Diktadurang Marcos” within the new fundamental schooling curriculum which was launched in August. —KG, GMA Integrated News
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