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.
 Thank You
For
Listening 