Perennialism is a teacher-centered educational philosophy that aims to develop students' intellectual and moral qualities by focusing on concepts and knowledge that are meant to endure, rather than facts that may become outdated. It emphasizes transferring knowledge from teachers to students and prioritizes subjects like history, religion, literature, science, and the arts. Perennialists believe this curriculum cultivates rational thinking and a well-rounded personality, preparing students for citizenship. Prominent advocates like Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler argued perennialism could reform schools and produce thoughtful citizens needed for democracy.

1. PERRENIALISM

2. 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.

3. •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.

4. 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.

5. WHY IS IT CALLED TEACHER-CENTERED?
More focus on the curriculum and nature need.
The teacher set everything based on the syllabus.

8. THE GREAT IDEAS IN WESTERN
CIVILIZATION ARE :
 HISTORY
 RELIGION
 WORKS OF LITERATURE AND ART
 THE LAWS AND PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE

9. WHY TEACH THROUGH PERENNIALISM?
•To develop to a learner a sound personality
•Rational and moral powers
•To read great books

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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

14. THE ADVOCATES:
•ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
Developed A Great Books Program In 1963.
•MORTIMER J. ADLER
[1902-2001]
•JACQUES MARITAIN
[1882-1973]

15. 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

16. 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.”

17. 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

18. 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.

19. PERENNIALISTS THINK
Perennialism believed it was a solution
proposed in response to what was considered by
many to be a failing educational system.

20. Thank You
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