Misedukasyon

Everyone aspires for a quality education for his or her future. Unfortunately, quality

education is not for free. Our government allots the biggest portion of our country’s fund for

education but changes and improvements cannot be observed. Universities – even the state

ones – have high matriculation. Thus, students tend not to finish school but choose to work.

Miseducation is one of the country’s biggest dilemma. According to IBON Foundation

Inc., there are four factors why this happens. One of these is colonialism. Education became the

means of the Americans to have control over us Filipinos. Another factor is neocolonialism.

Americans still maintains its great power over us making us adopt their culture, their English

language, making us act like robots and not thinking objects. There is also intensification of

commercialism. Filipinos are strongly influenced by the desire to earn money rather than seeing

the worth of important values. Last factor is elitism. Most people say that graduating from a

prestigious university assures you an occupation. They say that it is your degree and university

that matters and not your intelligence.

Everyone knows that education is important in our society today. Education is one of the

best things that you can achieve as a person. It makes you prepare for your future and it

teaches you how you can make great contribution to our society. But the problem is, education

in the Philippines is so wrong in many ways as described and mentioned above. As one of the

major fields in development communication, how can educational communication help address

the issues and challenges in the Philippine education system?

The purpose of EdCom is to make learning take place, focusing on the learners and the

learning process itself. Thus, in EdCom, facilitators of leaning may find his or her specific skill

well-suited on a training, or learning through audiovisual and other educational media.

Education does not always...