Essentialism
Traditional Education.
Facts.
Educational Value is fixed.
Teacher Dominates. instruction.
Student recieves knowledge.
Founder:William C. Bagley.
Child-Centered Education.
Based on traditional disciplines such as language, math, social studies, etc.
Perennialism
Contempary Eduction.
Not Facts.
Educational Value is interchangable.
Teacher facilitates instruction.
Students construct knowledge.
Mortimer Adler-great proponent of Perennialism.
Believes Focus of Education should be the ideas have lasted over centuries.
Education Theories.
Philsophy.
Developing students' intellectual and moral qualities.
Essentialism/Perennialism
(author: Hannah Eaton)
