Curriculum
What are the two primary types of books for a Perennialst lesson?
What is Great Books and Junior Great books
What is the method of inquiry used by the teacher in a Perrenial setting?
What is Socratic Method.
What is the role of a teacher in Perennialism?
What is Discussion Leader, Questioner, and Master.
What is an educated person supposed to represent after learning in a perennialism setting?
What does perennialism teach content through?
What is textbooks, articles, and historical references.
What is students freely express opinions, teacher probing questions, students participating in discussion.
What is the role of a student in Perennialsim?
What is Disscussant, Seeker, Follower.
What are skills practiced when teaching perenialism?
What are critical thinking, knowledge application, and information recall
What is an example of universal knowledge?
What is mathematical problems, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Who came up with the Socratic Method?
Who is Socrates.
What is the role of the school in perennialism?
What is headmaster, time management, classroom setup for group work, provide the primary sources used.
What is the root meaning for the word perennialism?
What is perpetual or reoccurring.
What is one characteristic of the curriculum in perennialism?
What is stagnant, permanent, does not change, constant.
What is didactic method of teaching?
What is a teacher centered way of teaching. The teacher gives instructions to the students while they’re mostly listening.
How is the students supposed to represent as a follower?
What is if the teacher is a leader or master, the student is supposed to be a follower or disciple of their teaching, and strive to master the content as their teacher has already done.
What does spontaneous questioning ask a student to do?
What is to clarify a response, support a conclusion, or elaborate on an idea that emerges during instruction.
What is an example of a lesson with Perennialism as the guiding philosophy?
What is conversation-based, student-led after teacher sets up the material, and critical thinking-based.
What are the three-part logical progressions that Plato says are in dialectic?
What is thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
What does Alder refer to the teacher’s role as?
What is “the first among equals.”
What does Kant believe about the capacity humans have to develop moral reasoning?
What is a part of our rational nature.