UNIVERSITY OF LUZON

GRADUATE SCHOOL

PERENNIALISM
Reporter:

KATHLEEN LAT ENCARNACION

 PERENNIALISM

Aims to develop students

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outdated or found to be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 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 students interest.
 WHY IS IT CALLED TEACHER-
CENTERED?
More focus on the
curriculum and nature
need.

The teacher set

everything based on the
syllabus.
TEACHER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES

PERENNIALISM
 Focus On Sample Role of Goals for Educational
Curriculum Classroom Teacher Students Leaders
Activity
-Universal - Instill
and respect for
unchanging authority, - Train the
truth. perseverance, students
duty, intellect and
- To espouse consideration, moral - Robert
personal and development. Maynard
development Indoor practicality. Hutchins
and internal - Experiment
transformatio (Science) - Act as the - Able to - Mortimer J.
n. director and discipline Adler
coach of themselves.
- To search intellect
and respondent. - Jacques
disseminate - Will gain the Maritain
the subjects - Must deliver ability to
based on the clear lectures. develop a full
universal and range of
immutable - Coaching in rational
truth. critical powers.
thinking skills.
- History,
T H E G R E AT I D E A S I N W E S T E R N C I V I L I Z AT I O N
A R E :

History
Religion
Works of literature
and art
The laws and
principles of Science
T H E G R E AT I D E A S I N W E S T E R N C I V I L I Z AT I O N
A R E :

These ideas have

the potential for
solving problems
in any era.
 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.
 CURRICULUM
They recommend that
students learn from
reading and analyzing the
works by historys finest
thinkers and writers.
(Perennialists 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 advocates

ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS

- Developed a Great Books
program in 1963.
The advocates
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 disasterwhatever the
pricethe 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
Hutchins point of view
the distant and intermediate past
the most recent contributions to the
Great conversationthe 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.
 REFERENCES
EBSCO Research Starters Copyright 2008
EBSCO Publishing Inc.

Contemporary Theories of Education by Richard

Pratte.

Philosophy and the American School by Van

Cleve Morris.

http://www.everythingphilosophy.com/philosoph
y-of-education/
Thank you and
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