essentialist
noun(es-sen-tial-ism)
an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods
essentialist
noun(es-sen-tial-ism)
a philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to essence embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses
essentialist
noun(es-sen-tial-ism)
the practice of regarding something (such as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct