American Influence on Philippine Psychology

American Colonial Psychology Philippine colonial education fostered the belief that

scientific psychology in the country was a Western creation, a process which supposedly started

soon after Commodore George Dewey won the mock battle of Manila Bay. To begin with,

undergraduate psychology courses beyond the introductory course were taught in the College of Education,

University of the Philippines using American textbooks and the English language as medium

of instruction. This was less than a decade after the university itself was established

in 1908 with Murray Bartlett, an American, as its first president. At the time,

Spanish had not altogether given way to English; literary writing in the Filipino