What is a perennialism curriculum like?

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What is a perennialism curriculum like?

Answer 1

I don't know but it sounds like yet another means to reduce education and learning to a system. Just let your child lead people.

Answer 2

Perennial means "everlasting," like a perennial flower that comes up year after year. Espousing the notion that some ideas have lasted over centuries and are as relevant today as when they were first conceived, Perennialism urges that these ideas should be the focus of education. According to Perennialists, when students are immersed in the study of those profound and enduring ideas, they will appreciate learning for its own sake and become true intellectuals.

For Perennialists, the aim of education is to ensure that students acquire understandings about the great ideas of Western civilization. These ideas have the potential for solving problems in any era. The focus is to teach ideas that are everlasting, to seek enduring truths which are constant, not changing, as the natural and human worlds at their most essential level, do not change. A Perennialist views nature, human nature, and the underlying principles of existence as constant. The principles of knowledge are enduring. Truth never changes

Teaching these unchanging principles is critical. Humans are rational beings, and their minds need to be developed. Thus, cultivation of the intellect is the highest priority in a worthwhile education. The demanding curriculum focuses on attaining cultural literacy, stressing students' growth in enduring disciplines. The loftiest accomplishments of humankind are emphasized– the great works of literature and art, the laws or principles of science.

Perennialism is not rooted in any particular time or place.   Perennialism is open to the notion that universal spiritual forms--such as those posited by Plato or by theological philosophers--are equally real.

Perennialists seek to help students discover those ideas most insightful and timeless in understanding the human condition. The study of philosophy is thus a crucial part of the Perennialist curriculum.

Answer 3

this is the best I on it as I have not heard of it before, try searching yourself, there was a good number of pages in the serch for "perennialism curriculum "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational...