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PERENNIALIS

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What is Perennialism

Comes from the word perennial meaningeverlasting.

A very conservative and inexible philosophy ofeducation.

A teacher-centered philosophy that emphasizesthe importance of transferring nowledge!information! and sills from the older "presumablywiser# generation to the younger one.

Perennialism says since people are human! oneshould teach $rst about humans! not machines ortechni%ues.


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A&' () *+,CA&( o educate the rational person /to

cultivate the intellect


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)ocus on the past and permanentstudies! mastery of facts and timeless

nowledge.


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3ole of *ducation eacher helps students thin rationally/

based on 4ocratic method! oral

exposition/ explicit teaching oftraditional values


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eaching 'ethods 4ub5ect centered

'ethods of disciplining the mindthrough reading and discussion.

Promotes character development


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2eneral Principles ofPerennialism

6. Permanence is more real than change

7. 8uman nature remains essentially the same

no matter the culture9. he good life-the life that is $t for

man:woman to live-remains essentially thesame

;. 'oral principles remain essentially the same


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People of Perennialism 3obert 8utchins Perennialist educator who strongly believed inhaving traditional liberal arts in all schools

&ntroduced the 2reat =oos program

Wanted ( extracurricular activities in schools>saidthey were irrelevant to the learning process

4tated that textboos ?have probably done as muchto degrade the American intelligence as any singleforce.@

Professor and +ean at ale 1aw 4chool


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People of Perennialism 'ortimer Adler

8elped 8utchins organize the 2reat =oos

program Proposed a single elementary and

secondary curriculum for all students!with no curricular electives except the

choice of a second language Professor of Philosophy at Columbia

,niversity


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Perennialism in the Classroom

4tudents spend most of their timemastering the three ?3s@- reading!

Briting! Brithmetic 2reatest importance placed on reading

each values and character trainingthrough discussions about underlying

values and moral principles in stories (nly elective is the choice of second

language


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Perennialism in the Classroomcontinued>

)ew! if any! textboos

4chools are organized around boos!ideas! and concepts

each from the 2reat =oos-wors byhistorys $nest thiners and writers

eachers do not lecture but lead and

facilitate discussions


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Perennialism in the ClassroomContinued>

3ole of the eacher each time-honored classics

1ifelong 1earner

+iscussion 1eader>ot 1ecturer

3ole of the 4tudent Active hiner:1earner


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Perennialism in the Classroomcontinued>

eaching ools 4tandardized ests

eacher-made tests 'emorization

Classic =oos

Classroom 'anagement (rderly rows

eat:Clean room

4trict rules

Punishment:3ewards


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3elated Curriculum rends 2reat boos

- a collection of literature deemed in

Western culture to be foundational!signi$cant! and relevant! regardless of thetime period.

hese boos include the wors of

4ocrates! Aristotle! 8omer! Plato!2eoDrey Chaucer! and William4haespeare.


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Paideia Proposal

All children can learn.

The Paideia Proposal re5ects the assumption that

some children can be fully educated while otherscan only be trained for 5obs. &t asserts that allchildren can master critical thining sills and thatgaps in achievement will diminish as children riseto meet higher expectations.

Adler declares! ?here are no unteachablechildren.@

?All children deserve the same %uality ofeducation! not 5ust the same %uantity.@


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3eturning to the liberal arts

The Trivium consisted ofF

- Grammar- Rhetoric

- Logic

The Quadrivium consisted ofF

- Arithmetic -- umber in itself

- Geometry -- umber in space

- Music, Harmonics, or Tuning Theory -- umber in time

- Astronomy or Cosmology -- umber in space and time


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3eferences

www.oregonstate.edu www.successfuleducation.info

*diger! '. "6GGH#. &nuence of ten leadingeducators of American education. Education,

66I"7#! 7JH. 3etrieved from *=4C(host. Perennialism "7KK9#. 3etrieved from

httpF::www.mtsu.edu:Ltsbrown:pere.htm

4ader! +.! Mittleman! 0. Teachers, Schools, and

Society: A Brief Introduction to Education. p.7KK-7KH. 3etrieved from httpF::www.education.com

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