PERRENIALISM

PERRENIALISM

•Aims to develop student’s intellectual and moral qualities.

•They emphasize that students should not be taught information
that may soon be outdate or found to be incorrect.
•Classrooms are centered on teachers.
•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.

WHY IS IT CALLED TEACHER-CENTERED?

More focus on the curriculum and nature need.

The teacher set everything based on the syllabus.

THE GREAT IDEAS IN WESTERN
CIVILIZATION ARE :

 HISTORY
 RELIGION
 WORKS OF LITERATURE AND ART
 THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE
WHY TEACH THROUGH PERENNIALISM?

•To develop to a learner a sound personality

•Rational and moral powers
•To read great books
WHY SHOULD PERENNIALISM BE APPLIED IN
TEACHING?

•The focus of perennialism as a philosophy of education is

for personal development of the students or learners through
inculcating in them the principles that have been passed
from generation to generation.
WHY SHOULD PERENNIALISM BE APPLIED IN
TEACHING?

•Applying perennialism will definitely set, not only the mind,

but the whole aspect of the learner welcome and better
understand all the ideas, knowledge or facts that will be
given to him that he considers necessary.
ON WHAT SUBJECTS OR TOPICS PERENNIALISM CAN BE APPLIED?

•Perennialists stress a strong liberal arts curriculum that includes

subjects as philosophy, mathematics, history, geography, political
science, sociology, theology, languages, and literature, physical and
life sciences, and the fine arts and humanities. If these subjects are
highly studied and mastered then you completed necessary training
for a well developed intellect. A combination of all these subjects
construct a well rounded curriculum.
TEACHERS IN PERRENIALISM
Focus on the importance of reading
Respect for authority, consideration and practicality
Act as the director and coach of intellect
Deliver clear lectures
Coaches critical thinking
THE ADVOCATES:
•ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Developed A Great Books Program In 1963.
•MORTIMER J. ADLER
[1902-2001]
•JACQUES MARITAIN
[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
ADLER STATES
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 OF 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
HUTCHINS POINT OF VIEW
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.
PERENNIALISTS THINK

Perennialism believed it was a solution proposed in

response to what was considered by many to be a
failing educational system.
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For
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