Indigenous Curriculum

It was a product of a vision to make curriculum relevant and responsive to

the needs and context of indigenous people.
It links the curriculum with the society’s culture and history. It values the
importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems of the people to the
existing curriculum.

Indigenous Curriculum Framework for the Development of the Curriculum

1. Construct knowledge so that young children understand how
experiences, personal views, and other peoples’ ideas influence the
development of scientific concepts and scientific knowledge.
2. Use instructional strategies that promote academic success for children
of different cultures.
3. Integrate contents and activities that reflect the learners’ culture,
history, traditions, and indigenous knowledge in the curriculum.
4. Utilize community’s cultural, material and human resources in the
development and implementation of the curriculum.

Strategies on Implementing:
1. Integrating contents and activities that reflect the learners’ culture,
history, traditions, and indigenous knowledge in the curriculum.
2. Using the local language as the medium of instruction for several
subjects like Math, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education, Music, Values
Education and Home Economics and Livelihood Education.
3. Involving community folks and local teachers in the development of the
curriculum.
4. Developing local instructional materials and learning outside the
classroom by utilizing various community resources that are available for
conducting observations and investigations.
5. Using instructional strategies that are relevant to indigenous learning
system.

Indigenous Curriculum is a noble way of responding to the needs of

indigenous people. In an indigenous curriculum, the first frame of reference for
developing a curriculum must be the community, its environment, its history, and
its people. (Pawilen, 2006, 2013)

BALS: Bureau IPRA: D.O. 101, s.

of Alternative
Learning
Indigenous
Peoples’ Rights
2010: The ALS
Curriculum
= ALS
System Act No. 8371 for IPs
Education