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Objectives
• Gain understanding of localization and contextualization in the Basic
Education Program

• Identify ways on how the curriculum, subject and/or test could be localized/
contextualized

• Express appreciation of the need to adapt to the learners’ diversity through

contextualization
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OUTLINE
- POLICY/LEGAL BASES OF
CONTEXTUALIZATION
- DEFINING CONTEXTUALIZATION
- DEGREES OF CONTEXTUALIZATION
- THE REACT STRATEGY
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IS A
CHALLENGE
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 1998 – 2006 : THIRD ELEMENTARY EDUCATION PROJECT
(TEEP)
- DEVELOPMENT OF READERS USING LOCAL STORIES
- INTEGRATION OF CULTURE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS IN
LEARNING AREAS
 2002 – 2007 : BASIC EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FOR
MINDANAO
INITIATIVES
- TRI-PEOPLE PERSPECTIVE BEFORE
– MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS,K TO
AND 12
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 2005 - PRESENT: STRENGTHENING IMPLEMENTATION OF
VISAYAS EDUCATION (STRIVE)
- REGION-WIDE EFFORTS ON
LOCALIZATION/CONTEXTUALIZATION
 2011 - 2014: PHILIPPINES’ RESPONSE TO INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES’ AND MUSLIM EDUCATION (PRIME)
- INITIAL ATTEMPT AT GENERATING THE CONTEXTUALIZATION
INITIATIVES BEFORE K TO 12
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 1987 Philippine Constitution

Article XIV, Section 14:

“The State shall foster the preservation,
enrichment, and dynamic evolution of a Filipino
national culture based on the principle of unity in
diversity in a climate of free artistic and
intellectual expression” 
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 1987 Philippine Constitution

Article XIV, Section 5. (1)

“The State shall take into account regional and

sectoral needs and conditions and shall
encourage local planning in the development of
educational policies and programs.”
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 Republic Act 9155
Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001
- Encourage local initiatives for improving the quality of
basic education
- The values, needs and aspirations of a school
community are reflected in the program of education
- School and learning centers shall be empowered to
makes decisions on what is best for the learners they
serve
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 Republic Act 10533

Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013

Section 5: The DepEd shall adhere to the

following standards and principles in developing
the enhanced basic education curriculum:

(d)... Contextualized and global

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 IRR of Republic Act 10533 (DO 43 s. 2013)
Contextualization
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Curriculum Framework
CONTEXT
NEEDS OF NATIONAL &
NATURE OF GLOBAL COMMUNITY
THE LEARNER ■ Poverty reduction and human
PHILOSOPHICAL development
■ Has a body and spirit, intellect, free
& LEGAL BASES will, emotions, multiple intelligence,
■ Strengthening the moral fiber of the
■ RA 10533 Enhanced Basic learning styles Filipino people
Education Act of 2013 ■ Constructor of knowledge and active ■ Development of a strong sense of
■ Kindergarten Act maker of meaning, not a passive nationalism
■ The 1987 Phil. Constitution ■ Development of productive citizens
recipient of information
■ BP 232, Education Act of 1982 who contribute to the building of a
■ RA 9155, Governance of Basic progressive, just, and humane society
Education Act of 2001 ■ Ensuring environmental sustainability
■ The vision, mission statement of NEEDS OF ■ Global partnership for development
DepEd THE LEARNER
■ SOUTELE, 1976 ■ Life skills
■ The EDCOM Report of 1991 ■ Self-actualization
■ Basic Education Sector Reform ■ Preparation for the world of the
Agenda (BESRA) work, entrepreneurship, higher
■ The four pillars of education education
(UNESCO)
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Contextualization
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learner-centered, standards- and

inclusive, and research- competence-based,
based seamless, decongested

culture-responsive and
culture-sensitive,
flexible, ICT-based,
integrative and
and global
contextualized, relevant
and responsive
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 Department of Education’s Mission
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to
quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where:
- Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment
- Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner
- Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an enabling and
supportive environment for effective learning to happen
- Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility
for developing life-long learners
Contextualization
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A diverse family of instructional strategies designed to more

seamlessly link the learning of foundational skills and
academic or occupational content by focusing teaching and
learning squarely on concrete applications in a specific
context that is of interest to the student. (Mazzeo et
al.,2003, pp. 3–4)
Contextualization
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Contextualization refers to meaningful language use for

communicative purposes within a given situation or context. It
comprises all activities by participants which make relevant,
maintain, revise, cancel … any aspect of context which, in turn, is
responsible for the interpretation of an utterance in its particular
locus of occurrence. - Auer and Di Luzio
(1992)
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Contextualization is a prerequisite in addressing the content and
organization of activities to be undertaken in the classroom.
Students' engagement in their schoolwork increases significantly
when they are taught, why they are learning the concepts and how
those concepts can be used in real-world contexts.
- Mouraz and Leite (2013) and Center for Occupational
Research and Development (2012)
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Cultural contextualize education motivates students to know

more about their cultural heritage in order to appreciate and
understand other cultural heritage.

- Ozele as cited in HeeKap Lee & Ivy Yee-Sakamoto (2012)

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“... entails intentional efforts to extend learning

beyond the classroom into relevant contexts
in the real world, and it also entails bringing
realities of those extra academic contexts
into the classroom” (Brelsford, 2008)
Contextualization
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Contextualization is the educational process of

relating the curriculum to a particular setting,
situation, or area of application to make the
competencies relevant, meaningful, and useful to all
learners.
- DepEd Order 32, s. 2015
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- DepEd Order 35, s. 2016

Contextualization
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- DepEd Order 35, s. 2016

Contextualization
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- DepEd Order 35, s. 2016

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Teaching
School Home
Culture Culture
Skills

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Contextualization
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Localization Enculturation
Does it fit the Does it fit in the
locality? culture?

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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Localization
“… freedom for schools or local education authorities to adapt a
curriculum to local conditions” – Taylor (2004;2)

“…relating the content of the curriculum and the processes of

teaching and learning to the local environment” – Taylor (2004;
3)
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Localization involves
“adaptation of the
curriculum content to
the community where
changes in a given
curriculum are based on
its peculiarities”.
-Abuso, et al. (2002; 44)
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How can localization be done?

• Organizing the subject to make it
relevant to the students’ culture
• Adopting content and learning
modes, including learning
systems from the community;

http://aid.dfat.gov.au

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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How can localization be done?

• Inviting the natives/ local
people to participate in
implementing the curriculum

http://aid.dfat.gov.au

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Contextualization
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materials (English 9)

EXAMPLE: LESSON 1 (LM)

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The task can be CONTEXTUALIZED AND LOCALIZED in terms of materials by using a

video, other photos, a situation, caricature, a comic strip instead of the photos above.
Make sure that replacements are of the same theme.
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Task’s content (English 9)
EXAMPLE: LESSON 1 (LM)

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Task 2 can be CONTEXTUALIZED in terms of CONTENT by using other song that is

more current and with the same meaning.
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Curricula and instruction based on contextual learning

strategies should be structured to encourage five
essential forms of learning: 
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Learning in the context of life experience, or relating, is the

kind of contextual learning that typically occurs with very
young children. With adult learners, however, providing this
meaningful context for learning becomes more difficult. The
curriculum that attempts to place learning in the context of
life experiences must, first, call the student’s attention to
everyday sights, events, and conditions. It must then relate
those everyday situations to new information to be
absorbed or a problem to be solved. 
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Experiencing—learning in the context of exploration,

discovery, and invention—is the heart of contextual learning.
However motivated or tuned-in students may become as a
result of other instructional strategies such as video,
narrative, or text-based activities, these remain relatively
passive forms of learning. And learning appears to "take" far
more quickly when students are able to manipulate
equipment and materials and to do other forms of active
research. 
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Applying concepts and information in a useful context

often projects students into an imagined future (a
possible career) or into an unfamiliar location (a
workplace). This happens most commonly through text,
video, labs, and activities, and these contextual learning
experiences are often followed up with firsthand
experiences such as plant tours, mentoring
arrangements, and internships. 
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Cooperating—learning in the context of sharing, responding,

and communicating with other learners—is a primary
instructional strategy in contextual teaching. The experience
of cooperating not only helps the majority of students learn
the material, it also is consistent with the real-world focus of
contextual teaching.
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Learning in the context of existing knowledge, or transferring,

uses and builds upon what the student has already learned.
Such an approach is similar to relating, Students develop
confidence in their problem-solving abilities if we make a point
of building new learning experiences on what they already
know.
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Principles of Interventions
1 Teachers as cultural mediators
2 Culturally responsive pedagogy
3 Community of practice
4 Praxis for transformation

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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• Localization and contextualization can be done in all
subject areas

• Localization maximizes materials that are locally

available

• To contextualize, teachers use authentic materials,

activities, interests, issues, and needs from learners’ lives
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In designing activities in the classroom using authentic
materials, it is important to set the purpose first.

Helpful questions
o How will students interact with the material?
o What will students learn?
o Why will they learn it?
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How? Take a picture of an arch - shaped object in
your locality.

What? in order to identify the axis of symmetry

Why? so they can appreciate the role that math

played in architecture in their place.
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the following sentence prompts:

How? Students will

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What? in order to
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Know how, when, and why
to say what
to whom.
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• Should create rooms for students to pose
problems and issues and develop strategies
together for addressing them
• The localized or contextualized curriculum is
based on local needs and relevance for the
learners where there is flexibility and
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 We must build on what resources the
school have.

 We must accommodate and respect

cultural, linguistic and racial diversity.
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1. Are new concepts presented in real-life situations and experiences that are
familiar to the student? 
2. Are concepts in examples and student exercises presented in the context
of their use? 
3. Are new concepts presented in the context of what the student already
knows? 
4. Do examples and student exercises include many real, believable problem-
solving situations that students can recognize as important to their current
and possible future lives?
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5. Do examples and student exercises cultivate an attitude that says, "I need
to learn this"? 
6. Do students gather and analyze their own data as they are guided in
discovery of the important concepts? 
7. Are opportunities presented for students to gather and analyze their own
data for enrichment and extension? 
8. Do lessons and activities encourage the student to apply concepts and
information in useful contexts, projecting the student into imagined futures
(e.g., possible careers) and unfamiliar locations (e.g. workplaces)? 
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9. Are students expected to participate regularly in interactive groups
where sharing, communicating, and responding to the important concepts
and decision-making occur? 

10. Do lessons, exercises, and labs improve students’ written and oral
communication skills in addition to mathematical reasoning and
achievement?
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“In order for you to localize and contextualize the
curriculum, “you have to think of where you are so
that you can make the curriculum relevant to you.”
The best curricula are contextualized by those
implementing it. It is now up to us to ensure that this
enhanced curriculum truly transforms our schools and
communities. With the best of our abilities, let us do
what we can for the Filipino learner.”
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To nurture a child’s ability to communicate thinking,
instruction should be sensitive to the individual’s
needs, abilities, and interests and thus, focus the
instructional process on the learner.

Dr. Maxima
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Igniting the Passion of T

eaching
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Good teachers are now in extinction.
we cannot allow any further.
As teachers, let’s Continue to
share that inspiration and passion that really shapes
incomparable generation.

#Shapeandshare
 Thank you
very much and God
bless.
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