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    Perennialism in

    Education
    GRACESHINE A. CADUNGON
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    SDINLCPNEI

    DISCIPLINE
    ARVIURELNS

    UNIVERSAL
    OLITRAAN

    RATIONAL
    RTHTU

    TRUTH
    EAHRTCE

    TEACHER
    Perennialism
    In PERENNIALISM, it is believed that one
    should teach the things that one deems to
    be of everlasting importance to all people
    everywhere. Since details of fact change
    constantly, these cannot be the most
    important.
    Perennialism
    ▪Aims to develop student's
    intellectual and moral qualities.

    ▪They emphasize that students should not be


    taught information that may soon be
    outdated or found to be incorrect.
    Perennialism
    ▪Classrooms are centered on
    teachers.

    ▪It ensures that students acquire


    understandings about the great ideas of
    Western civilization.
    Perennialism
    ▪ Perennialism teaches concepts and
    focuses on knowledge and the
    meaning of knowledge.

    ▪ Aimed at teaching students ways of


    thinking that will secure individual
    freedoms, human rights, and
    responsibilities through nature.
    Perennialis
    m
    ▪is the most conservative,
    traditional, and inflexible
    educational philosophy
    Why is it c a l le d
    t ea ch e r - c e n t e r e d
    ?
    ▪ The teacher is not concern at the student's
    interest.

    ▪ Emphasize the importance of transferring


    knowledge, information and skills from the
    older generation to the younger one.
    Why is i t c a l le d
    teacher - c e n t e re d
    ?
    ▪ More focus on the curriculum and nature
    need.

    ▪ The teacher set everything based on the


    syllabus.
    Teacher-C e n te r e d Ph ilo s o p h y
    Focus on
    Curriculum

    Educational
    Leaders Perennialism Sample classroom activity

    Goals for
    Role of Teacher
    Students
    Focus on Curriculum

    Universal and unchanging truth.

    To espouse personal development and internal


    transformation.

    To search and disseminate the subjects based


    on the universal and immutable truth.

    History, Science, Language, Mathematics,


    Religion.
    CURRICULUM
    • Focuses on attaining cultural literacy, stressing
    students’ growth in enduring disciplines.

    • They recommend that students learn from reading


    and analyzing the works by history's finest thinkers
    and writers.
    CURRICULUM

    A skilled teacher would keep discussion on topic and


    correct errors in reasoning, but it would be the class,
    not the teacher, who would reach the conclusions.
    Sample classroom Activity

    • Indoor-experiment (Science)
    Role of Teacher

    ✔ Instill respect for authority, perseverance, duty,


    consideration, and practicality.

    ✔ Act as the director and coach of intellect


    respondent.

    ✔ Must deliver clear lectures.

    ✔ Coaching in critical thinking skills.


    Goals for Students

    ✔ Train the students intellect and moral


    development.

    ✔ Able to discipline themselves.

    ✔ Will gain the ability to develop a full


    "range of rational powers."
    Goals for Students

    ✔ Understand the pre-established law


    and order

    ✔ Learn reasoning

    ✔ Character building

    ✔ Must be hardworking, dutiful, obedient


    and interested.
    Discipline

    ✔ Discipline plays a pivotal role in the


    class
    ✔ Very strict discipline
    ✔ Harsh
    ✔ Noisy class is unacceptable
    ✔ Respect for authority
    Great Ideas in
    Western C iv i l iz a ti o n a r e

    •History
    •Religion
    •Works of Literature and art
    •The laws and principles of Science
    The Focus

    Is to teach To seek enduring


    ideas that are truths which are
    everlasting. constant (not
    changing), as the
    natural and human
    worlds at their most
    essential level, do
    not change.
    Educational Leaders

    Robert Maynard Hutchins


    Mortimer J. Adler
    Jacques Maritain
    THE ADVOCATES

    ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS


    • Developed a Great Books
    program in 1963.
    THE ADVOCATES
    MORTIMER J. ADLER JACQUES MARITAIN
    (1902-2001) (1882-1973)
    REFERENCES

    EBSCO Research Starters®• Copyright © 2008 EBSCO Publishing Inc.

    Contemporary Theories of Education by Richard Pratte

    http://www.everythingphilosophy.com/philosophy-of-education/
    Thank you!

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