1. Perennialism
Nicole

2. What is Perennialism?
Beliefs that society + education is unchanged over centuries
Natural World, Human Nature
Emphasize rational thinking
Acquire understanding for history, western civilization
the most conservative, traditional, or inflexible of all
Able to solve problems of any era

3. Philosophers Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
Mortimer Adler( )
President of university of Chicago (1963)
Thomas Aquinas
R.M.H.-great book program (1963)
M.A.- further developed curriculum based on 100 best western civilization history books

4. Curriculum Demanding Curriculum Attain cultural literacy
Greatest works of literature, art, laws/principals of science
Growth in enduring disciplines
Should stress intellectual growth (arts and science)

5. Literacy Intentions Science Intentions
Great works of literature, rather than current events/novels
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Dickens
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Plato
Required to learn one…
3 laws of motion
3 laws of thermodynamics
Rather than building a shuttle model
Einstein

6. Educational Intentions
Promote mankind’s search for truth.
Must also focus on ideas.
Human rationality = essential function of education.
Educations should stimulate students, significant ideas.
Teach students to become independent, critical thinkers.
Prepare students for life ahead

7. Someone once stated…
“hard work and effort are necessary if one is to get a good education”
“The observations of a Shakespeare or a Dickens on the human condition re just as relevant today as they were when they were alive.”

8. Religious Perennialism
Secular Perennialism
Religious Perennialism
Learning on reason
Using original works of education
Personal development of students
Christina education causing it to be rejected from being permissible

9. Perennialism Taught at all academic levels
Students are taught through structure lessons, drills
Future national standards are coming into place, they emphasize Perennialism
Teaching students under Perennialist philosophy of education is believed to be equipping students for “Universal Knowledge”

10. Sources http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ed416/PP3.html
articles/perennialism-philosophy-of-education html
Becoming a teacher (Parkway, 2010)