Perennialism by Linda Gema Silva

Top 3 Basic Tenants

lindasilva2 — 2025-02-28 00:49:34 UTC

Universal Truths: Fundamental ideas that apply across cultures and time periods. Often rooted in classical philosophy, religious teachings, and great works of literature.

Classical Education: views learning as a lifelong pursuit of wisdom, guided by enduring intellectual and moral principals.

Self-discipline: viewed as the ability to govern oneself through reasoning and adherence. It is cultivated through structured learning, rigorous intellectual challenges, and engagement with classic texts that encourage ethical reflection.

Common Middle School Texts

lindasilva2 — 2025-03-01 00:30:52 UTC

When it comes to perennialism in Middle School, the focus is to allow students to start thinking for themselves. In this way, they can make connections with their prior knowledge. It's also their start to being allowed to read classical works and figure out by themselves the concepts in them that they believe continue to affect and change the world over time.

Common High School Text

lindasilva2 — 2025-03-01 00:48:17 UTC

In High School, Perennialism is used to continue to see how students grasp and understand the information in both English and History. Another major part is working on the continuation of philosophy and having students go on with education as a basis for their work, belief, and overall way of living as what they learn is formed from strong values from the past.

Perennialism Defined

michaelhernandez14_1 — 2025-03-01 16:56:16 UTC

The philosophy that emphasizes rationality as the major purpose of education. It asserts that the essential truths are recurring and universally true; it stresses Great Books. (Sadker, D., 2021)

Major Thinkers - Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1979)

michaelhernandez14_1 — 2025-03-01 17:01:34 UTC

Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) was an American educator and university and foundation president. (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2025, January 13).

"During the sixteen years he served as president of the University of Chicago, Hutchins abolished fraternities, football, and compulsory attendance, and introduced the Great Books program." (Sadker, D., 2021) He recommended that "students learn directly from the Great Books-works by history’s finest thinkers and writers, books as meaningful today as when they were first written." (Sadker, D., 2021)

Major Thinkers - Mortimer Adler (1902-2001)

michaelhernandez14_1 — 2025-03-01 17:02:53 UTC

Morimer J. Adler (1902-2001) was an American philosopher who stirred up schools, colleges, and universities concerning the placement of classic works in curriculum.

He increased and rejuvenated interest in perennialism with the publication of The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (1982). The Paideia Proposal - done late in his career - provided and offered public educators "a unique concept of teaching great works to children." ("Mortimer Jerome Adler." Encyclopedia of World Biography). Adler advocated that "all students be educated in the classics and that education be a lifelong venture." (Sadker, D., 2021)

Middle and High School Citations

lindasilva2 — 2025-03-02 03:56:54 UTC

Bansal, S. (2015). PERENNIALISM -A CONCEPT OF EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY. International Journal of Education and Science Research REVIEW E-ISSN, 2(6). https://ijesrr.org/publication/27/IJESRR%20V-2-6-13.pdf

Elgström, O., & Hellstenius, M. (2011). Curriculum debate and policy change. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 43(6), 717–738. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2011.584562

Do you believe the philosophy of Perennialism works, and do you see it being used in your field experience?

lindasilva2 — 2025-03-02 04:01:26 UTC

Early and Elementary Citations

griselgallardotinoco1 — 2025-03-02 04:02:15 UTC

Pratiwi, D. H. (2023). The philosophy of perennialism. Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Instructional Media. https://m.booksci.cn/literature/139339327.htm.

Mosier, R. D. (1958). Perennialism in education. The Journal of Higher Education, 29(2), 88-94. https://doi.org/10.2307/1977003.

Have you applied any perennialist strategies in your teaching experience over the years?

griselgallardotinoco1 — 2025-03-02 04:04:57 UTC

What about perennialism draws your attention? What do you agree/disagree with?

malikcolon1 — 2025-03-02 04:40:03 UTC

John Hopkins University

malikcolon1 — 2025-03-02 04:48:09 UTC

Schools of Educational Philosophy, Chapter 9: What are the philosophical foundations of American Education.

Storytelling in Elemetary Schools

griselgallardotinoco1 — 2025-03-02 05:02:22 UTC

Storytelling in Erly Childhood Schools

griselgallardotinoco1 — 2025-03-02 05:09:29 UTC

Basic Tenants Citation

lindasilva2 — 2025-03-02 22:16:44 UTC

4 Major Educational Philosophies. (n.d.). John Hopkins University . https://teachingacademy.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/62/4_Major_Educational_Philosophies.pdf

Foundations Citations

michaelhernandez14_1 — 2025-03-03 01:30:36 UTC

Sadker, D. (2021). Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781264169979
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2025, January 13). Robert Maynard Hutchins. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Maynard-Hutchins
"Mortimer Jerome Adler ." Encyclopedia of World Biography. . Retrieved February 10, 2025 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mortimer-jerome-adler

Which one of these Great Book titles are familiar to you? Which ones have you read?

michaelhernandez14_1 — 2025-03-03 02:26:17 UTC

The Bible

Canterbury Tales
The Great Gatsby
The Koran
Moby Dick
Gulliver's Travels