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Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited free online encyclopedia operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its article on educational perennialism is used here as an accessible secondary reference for the philosophy's definition and its secular strand led by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler.

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Wikimedia Foundation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_perennialism
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
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Wikipedia: Educational perennialism
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Educational perennialism is a normative educational philosophy. Perennialists believe that the priority of education should be to teach principles that have persisted for centuries, not facts.
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Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Pedagogical Approaches, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

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7

Pedagogical Approaches

Scholarly debate

1

Pedagogical Approaches

General References

2

Pedagogical Approaches

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