Essentialism by Shannon Dean https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve Made with mirth en-us 2021-04-17 05:17:21 UTC 2025-11-09 03:09:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Essentialism smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427760018 Do not have singular philosophic base; underlying from idealism and realism]]> 2021-04-17 05:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427760018 Conservative position smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427764280 more concerned with facts and truth rather than innovation]]> 2021-04-17 05:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427764280 Essentialist Admiral Hyman G. Rickover smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427765163 Believes there is a lack of developed minds in the U.S. 

Recommended adoption of European-type education systems that focus on the basics so that students are prepared for higher education]]> 2021-04-17 05:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427765163 Back to Basics smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427767139 Essentialist believe high school standards should focus on 5 basics: English, Math, Science, Social Studies, & computer science]]> 2021-04-17 05:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427767139 Religion smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427769353 American Protestantism  want to have religion back into school curriculum. 

Christian Day schools grew in the 1980's.]]> 2021-04-17 05:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427769353 E.D. Hirsch Jr. smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427770757 Published several books.  Believes U.S. has best universities, yet the worse public schools due to progressive & humanistic groups. 

Believes "to be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world."

Published The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, & the Core Knowledge Series, such as What Your First Grader Needs to Know.  ]]> 2021-04-17 05:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427770757 Essentialist Principle 1: School's first task is to teach basic knowledge smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427772851 Teaching the basics to mastery will prepare students to function as a citizen in society. ]]> 2021-04-17 05:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427772851 Essentialist Principle 2: Learning is hard work & requires discipline smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427775143 Effort is more important than interest & students should focus on discipline on tasks]]> 2021-04-17 05:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427775143 Essentialist Principle 3: Teacher is the locus of classroom authority smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427776418 Teacher is respected & the one teaching. Has the right to use discipline. ]]> 2021-04-17 05:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427776418 Essentialism vs. Perennialism smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427777693 Essentialism focuses on elementary/secondary education while Perennialism focuses on higher education]]> 2021-04-17 05:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427777693 Essentialism rose in 1930s smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427786087 Felt education was "too soft" 

believe education moved away from the basics such as the three R's]]> 2021-04-17 05:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427786087 Essentialist Committee for Advancement of American Educators smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427787313 formed in 1938
by Bagley, Kandel, & Breed
believe that education is deteriorating]]> 2021-04-17 06:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427787313 Council for Basic Education smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427788411 formed in 1950s
By Smith & Bestor
2nd major essentialist organization to give voice for essentialism]]> 2021-04-17 06:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427788411 Arthur Bestor smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427789367 Wrote Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning from Public Schools & The Restoration of Learning: A Program for Redeeming the Unfulfilled Promise of American Education

Critical of progressivism


]]> 2021-04-17 06:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427789367 Nation at Risk smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427792381 report in 1983 believe that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people."  
Calls for focus on "Five New Basics"]]> 2021-04-17 06:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427792381 The fourth R smdean1026 https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427794226 Religion is considered a basic for school curriculum. They believe "educational humanism was a threat that paled into relative insignificance in the face of the peril of its underlying philosophy of 'secular humanism'. ]]> 2021-04-17 06:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/smdean1026/nidtpspecez833ve/wish/1427794226