Philosophy of Perennialism: Presented By: Ater, Nikko Cocamao, Judelyn Helia, Edelyn Palo, Jehan Pantao, Nashiba

Philosophy of
Perennialism
Presented by:
Ater, Nikko
Cocamao, Judelyn
Helia, Edelyn
Palo, Jehan
Pantao, Nashiba
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taught information that may soon be outdated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.
Classrooms are centered on teachers.
It ensures that students acquire
understandings about the great ideas of
Western civilization.
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 the
nature.
WHY IS IT CALLED TEACHER-CENTERED
Emphasize the importance of transferring

knowledge, information and skills from the older
generation to the younger one.
The teacher is not concern at the student’s
interest.
 More focus on the curriculum and nature need.
 The teacher set everything based on the syllabus.
TEACHER-CENTERED PHILOSOPHIES
Focus on
curriculum
Sample
Educational
classroom
Leaders activity
Goals for Role of

Students Teacher
Focus On Sample Role of Teacher Goals for Educational
Curriculum Classroom Students Leaders
Activity
-Universal and - Instill respect
unchanging for authority,
truth. perseverance, - Train the
duty, students intellect
- To espouse consideration, and moral
personal and practicality. development. - Robert
development and Maynard
internal Indoor - Act as the Hutchins
transformation. - Experiment director and - Able to
(Science) coach of intellect discipline - Mortimer J.
- To search and respondent. themselves. Adler
disseminate the
subjects based - Must deliver
on the universal clear lectures. - Will gain the - Jacques
and immutable ability to develop Maritain
truth. - Coaching in a full “range of
critical thinking rational powers.”
- History, Science, skills.
Language,
Mathematics,
Religion.
THE FOCUS
Is to teach ideas that are everlasting.
To seek enduring truths which are constant
(not changing), as the natural and human
worlds at their most essential level, do not
change.
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.
(Perennialism think it is important that individuals think deeply,
analytically, flexibly and imaginatively.)
CURRICULUM
Perennialists believe that reading is to be
supplemented with mutual investigations
(between the teacher and the student) and
minimally- directed discussions through the
Socratic method in order to develop a historically
oriented understanding of concepts.
CURRICULUM
A skilled teacher would keep discussions on

topic and correct errors in reasoning, but it
would be the class, not the teacher, who
would reach the conclusions.
The a d v o c a t e s
ROBERT MAYNARD
HUTCHINS
- Developed a Great Books
program in 1963.
Moretimer J. Adler Jacoues Maritain
(1902-2001) (1882-1973)
ADLER STATES
“… our political democracy depends upon the reconstruction of our schools.
Our schools are not turning out young people prepared for the high office and
the duties of citizenship in a democratic republic. Our political institutions
cannot thrive, they may not even survive, if we do not produce a greater
number of thinking citizens, from whom some statesmen of the type we had in
the 18th century might eventually emerge. We are, indeed, a nation at risk, and
nothing but radical reform of our schools can save us from impending
disaster…whatever the price…the price we will pay for not doing it will be much
greater.”
Hutchins point o f view
“…new books have been written that have won their place in the list. Books
once thought entitled to belong to it have been superseded; and this
process of change will continue as long as men can think and write. It is
the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to
discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and
intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great
conversation…the West needs to recapture and reemphasize and bring to
bear upon its present problems the wisdom that lies in the works of its
greatest thinkers and in the discussion that they have carried on”.
Therefore:
Perennialists believe that the focus of education should be the ideas
that have lasted over centuries. They believe the ideas are as relevant
and meaningful today as when they were written. They recommend
that students learn from reading and analyzing the works by history's
finest thinkers and writers. Essentialists believe that when students
study these works and ideas, they will appreciate learning. Similar top
perennialism, essentialism aims to develop students' intellectual and
moral qualities. Perennialist classrooms are also centered on teachers
in order to accomplish these goals. The teachers are not concerned
about the students' interests or experiences.
Thank you
very much!

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