2. concept of universal
education; the belief that
there is essential knowledge
that everyone in a given
culture must have in order to
be a knowledgeable and fully
participating member of that
culture.
3. It is the school’s
responsibility to provide
that knowledge.
4. It states that the students
should be provided with the
basic education so that it
develops their knowledge as
well as helps in character
building.
5. instill all students with the
most essential or basic
academic knowledge and
skills and character
development.
6. William C. Bagley
founder of essentialist
educational theory
Emphasizes rigorous
teacher-centered
education vs.
child-centered
learning
8. students should study
the sensible and wise
subjects like
literature, philosophy, s
cience and other
subjects related to the
great works
9. there
is a common core
of knowledge that needs
to be transmitted to
students in a
systematic, disciplined
way
10. The child is a learner to be
shaped and developed
Education is a preparation
for life, it is not an imitation
of life
11. Curriculum….
• essential knowledge and
skills and academic rigor
• based on traditional
disciplines such as math,
natural science, history,
language, and literature
12. Teacher’s Role
Student’s Role
• As an expert
•Listen and learn
• Impart essential
knowledge
•Trust that the
teacher knows
best
•Direct focused
tasks
14. Perennialism means that
one should teach the things
that one deems to be of
“everlasting’’ importance to
all people everywhere.
- it says that one should
teach principles, not facts.
15. • a strategy that teaches
scientific reasoning, not
facts, this gives the
students a human side to
the science, and shows the
reasoning in action
18. Perennialists believe….
that they should teach the
things of universal
importance to the humankind
that the focus of education
should be the ideas that
have lasted over centuries.
19. the ideas are as relevant
and meaningful today as
when they were written
