Teaching Social Studies in The Elementary Grades-Culture and Geography

Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary
Grades-Culture and Geography
MONASALAM M.
DISANGCOPAN,MPA,MAEDGC,LPT
The course learning outcomes
• which help students learn about their

community as they develop an interest
in their local and neighboring
communities.
Culture
Culture – is defined by Edward B. Taylor as

that complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customs
and other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of a society.
Culture
• Culture serves as foundation of man’s continuing

interaction with his surroundings. People develop a
culture of their own out of their learning and
experiences from their environmental exposure
( Banaag, 2012 P. 46)
• To understand man’s social experience, it is
necessary to make a wider analysis of man’s
relationship to his natural environment.
However, we need to identify the
significance of culture, society, and politics
in order to appreciate the different
components that are essential to the total
development of a human person.
According to Banaag, culture
functions in the following
ways and from which we can
realized the significance of
culture as well:
• Culture make possible for man to adapt and integrate himself
to his environment by being creative and resourceful in
coming up with ways and means of survival.
• Culture establishes patterns of acceptable social behavior
such as etiquette, protocols, good manners, mores, and laws.
• Culture convey and facilitates meaning through verbal and
non-verbal communication, written language, forms of
expression, and symbolism.
• Culture produces man- made things such as clothing tools,
instruments, machines, equipment, structures, etc. Made
possible by technological know-how.
• Culture contributes to overall human satisfaction as we
develop ways to make life more enjoyable, more
comfortable, easier, and more rewarding such as
recreational activities,leisure, entertainment and arts, etc.
• Therefore, culture creates the identifies of
individuals which are distinct from one another .
Geographical or territorial boundaries contribute
to cultural diversities of human society. A Filipino
living in Luzon will learn to utilize land or acquire
skills in faring as source of living as compared to
those who are living along the coastal areas of the
Visayas who will depend on fishing as a source of
livelihood. Culture may be though as a design for
living or a road map that guides the behavior of
members of a society, permitting them to live
together in an organized , orderly manner ( Palispis
2007, p. 42).
Kinds of Culture
1. Non-material Culture (intangible)

includes beliefs, norms, mores, laws,
folkways, rituals and etc.
2. Material Culture (tangible) includes
man’s technologies, etc.
Characteristics of Culture
1. Culture is learned – man is not born with
culture, but he is born with the capacity to
acquire and learn the culture of his group
2. All people have varied culture – every society
has its cultural values that is entirely different
from the others.
3. Culture is a group product – man cannot
develop a culture of his own if he is alone
4. Culture is transmitted – the learned culture of
the past generation are transmitted through
education
Importance of Culture
1. Thru the development of culture man can
set aside certain laws of nature to conform
to his needs.
2. Thru the development of culture man can
overcome his physical handicaps
How is culture transmitted?
Culture is transmitted through
1. ENCULTURATION – the process of
learning culture of ones own group. Ex.
Learning the folkways, mores, social
tradition, values, and beliefs of ones own
group.
2. ACCULTURATION – the process of
learning some new traits from another
culture.
3. ASSIMILATION – the process in which
an individual entirely loses any awareness
of his / her previous group identity and
takes on the culture and attitudes of
another group.
Filipino Cultural Values
• Non-rationalism – tendency to perceive thoughts,
objects, events and persons as sacred.
This includes:
Animism – belief in supernatural spirits
who presumably are
inferring with man’s daily affair.
Fatalism – belief in luck, fortune
telling, “bahala na”
“swerte” or “malas”,
horoscope, etc.
• Social Acceptance – the desire to be always
accepted by the group
Pakikisama – yielding to the decision of
the majority
Euphemism – stating an unpleasant truth,
opinion as pleasantly as
possible.
Go-between – the use of the third party
to exact favor or request
from another person. This
includes hiya.
• Emotional Closeness and Security of the Family –
means that mutual dependence among relatives.
• Authority – refers to the emphasis on the power and
importance of authority figure
• Economic and Social Improvement – the desire to
improve the standard of living in his family and his
hometown.
• Utang na Loob – means sense of gratitude
• Personalism – emphasizes the importance of the
person with whom one has immediate face to face
contact and connection. This includes pakiusap,
lagay, areglo and palakasan
• Indolence – laziness
• Ningas Cogon – great enthusiasm at the
beginning of a task, yet after a certain period
of time the enthusiasm fades.
• Mañana Habit – refers to procrastinations or
putting tomorrow what can be done today.
• Hospitality – cordially entertaining guests and
visitors even to the point of sacrificing their
own welfare
• Fiesta Syndrome – refers to the lavish
spending during fiesta and other occasions.
Weaknesses of the Filipino
Character
• Extreme Personalism
• Extreme Family Centeredness
• Lack of Discipline
• Passivity and Lack of Initiative
• Colonial Mentality
• Kanya-kanya Syndrome
• Lack of Self-Analysis and Self-Reflection

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Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary

Grades-Culture and Geography

• which help students learn about their

Culture – is defined by Edward B. Taylor as

• Culture serves as foundation of man’s continuing

1. Non-material Culture (intangible)

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