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Types of Perennialism:

Secular and Regional

Regional Perennialism

Curriculum

Christian Doctrine

  • holy scriptures
  • the catechism
  • Christian arts

Regional Perennialism

Secular Perennialism

  • education is a preparation of life
  • learning is a life long process
  • education is a union with God

believe in one ultimate truth,

and that a different version

of it springs up again

year after year

Curriculum of Secular Perennialism

  • Strong liberal art curriculum
  • Great Books

Key Facts:

eternal truths

permanence order

certainty

rationality

logic

Follows through with the ideas of:

  • Idealism
  • Realism
  • Neo-Thomism

Mortimer Adler

and

Robert Hutchins

Mortimer Adler

  • contemporary perennialist
  • inspired by John Stuart Mill
  • developing intellectual skills
  • critical thinking and questioning strategies

Description of

Perennialism

Perennialism

Educators

Book Definition:

Robert Hutchins

  • modern perennialist
  • Dean of Yale
  • President of Univeristy of Chicago
  • ideal education involved the Great books of Western Civilization

Educational theory that focuses on the past, namely the universal truths and absolutes as reason and faith.

Perennialism Education

Theory

By: Alma Sanchez

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