PROF ED 4a

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
 ACTIVITY NO. 3
(PERENNIALISM)
GROUP II

AILENE DEFEO CASTRO

ANNALIE RAC BERCHES
DENZEL VILLANIA DOLOR
IMEE BAGANGAN
IVAN LLOYD BELGA
LEONARD BARCENA
MD A SERVAZ
VANESSA TORRES
PERENNIALISM
 Classrooms are centered on
teachers.
 It ensures that students
acquire understandings about
the great ideas of western
civilization.
 It teaches concepts and
focuses on knowledge and the
meaning of knowledge.
 PEOPLE OF
PERENNIALISM
 ROBERT M. HUTCHINS (1899-1977)

 Former chancellor of the

University of Chicago
 Says that Ideal education is
designed to develop the
mind and concentrates on
the “Great Books of Western
Civilization”.
 MORTIMER ADLER (1902-2001)

 Opposed differential
curriculum
 Thought a democratic
society should have
access to the same
high quality education.
 ALLAN BLOOM (1930-1992)

 Crisis of “cultural illiteracy”

 Advocated for teaching and

learning the Great Books,
information with lasting
significance.
 EDUCATIONAL AIM
 Aimed at teaching students ways of thinking that will
secure individual freedoms, human rights, and
responsibilities through the nature.
 Aims to develop student’s intellectual and moral
qualities.
 NATURE
 Views truth as constant and universal.

 Education is good if it enables the student to acquire

knowledge of unchanging principles.

 ASSUMPTION
 Education should cultivate human’s rational mind.

 Education should stimulate human’s to think critically

and thoughtfully.
 WHY IT IS CALLED TEACHER-
CENTERED?

 Emphasize the importance of

transferring knowledge, information
and skills from the older generation
to the younger one.
 The teacher is not concerns at the
student’s interest.
 TEACHING METHODS
 Subject-centered

 Methods of disciplining the mind through reading and

discussion.
 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

 Develop the intellect of all learners and prepare them

for life.
 Develop a full “range of rational powers”.
 ROLE OF TEACHER
 The teacher must be a master of discipline.

 The teacher has the authority and expertise not to be

questioned.
 THE GREAT IDEAS IN WESTERN
CIVILIZATION ARE:

 HISTORY
 RELIGION
 WORKS OF LITERATURE AND ART
 THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLE OF SCIENCE

 These ideas have the potential for solving problems in

any era.
 THE FOCUS

 Is to reach 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 form reading and
analyzing the works by history’s finest thinkers and
writers.
 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.
 REFERENCES

 Contemporary Theories of Education by Richard

Pratte.
 Philosophy and the American School by Van Cleve
Morris.
 http://www.everythingphilosophy.com/philosophy-of-
education/
THANK YOU