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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Great defect in modern education
Platonic concept of education
atheistic wing of existentialism
Criticism of existentialism
2. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
reader-response theory
idealist value theory
Experimentalist aesthetics
Postmodernity educational practice
3. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
liberal education and career training
empiricism
Plato
Pluralism
4. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
cognitive-stage theories
Liberally educated person
cognitive
Abraham Joshua Heschel
5. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
Liberally educated person
Key elements of Greek education
analysis
controlled transaction
6. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
responsibility theory
Dead White European Male
Epicurus
7. Academic freedom does not mean _______
happiness
Strict neutrality
Sparta
national government
8. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
Antidosis
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
postmodernism
flute
9. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
active
only adequate education
Experimentalist aesthetics
10. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
Blessing
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
up
John Dewey
11. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Criticism of existentialism
philosophical analysis
liberal learning
up
12. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
philosophy as a subject matter
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
sauromatides
13. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Aristotle
California and Texas
Neil Postman
quadrivium
14. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
undergraduate schools
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
pragmatism
hubris
15. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
general education
Athens and Sparta
Protestant Reformation
16. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
theistic wing of existentialism
mirror of society and critic of society
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
17. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Platonic concept of education
controlled transaction
Sigmund Freud
transcendential idealism
18. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
existentialism
tradition of liberal arts education
consumerism
19. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Integrated Education
cultural literacy
Leisure
tradition of liberal arts education
20. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
existence precedes essence
Zeno
arete
Republic
21. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Experimentalist values
transcendential idealism
postmodernism
analytic
22. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
casuity
philosophy of education
virtue
Laws
23. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Politics
Aristotle
existentialist aesthetics
leaner-centered approach
24. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
form
Aristotle
Amish
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
25. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
naturalism
Sigmund Freud
Blessing
26. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Integrated Education
Plato
Isocrates
sole true end of education
27. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
Panathenaicus
controlled transaction
only adequate education
Dead White European Male
28. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
tradition of liberal arts education
normative philosophy of education
X Generation
Sparta
29. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
quadrivium
Peterson
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
30. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
cognitive-stage theories
Aristotle
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
trivium
31. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
philosophy as a subject matter
Justice and meritocracy
Plato
reason for sending child to public school
32. The 'love of wisdom'
consumerism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Republic
philosophy
33. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Experimentalist view of education
Pluralism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
34. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
Modernity
ordinary language analysis
Isocrates
active
35. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
criticism of latin
liberation to truth
noetic powers
Protagoras
36. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
tradition of liberal arts education
Xenophon
noetic powers
organized knowledge
37. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
hairsplitting
Athens
liberal education and career training
38. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
liberation to truth
Stanley Fish
descriptive
39. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Experimentalist view of education
Naturalism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
idealist metaphysics
40. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
hallmark of liberal arts education
worldview
form
Protagoras
41. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
Naturalism vs. Christianity
paideia
cognitive
Nicocles
42. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Dead White European Male
Athens and Sparta
Isocrates
empiricism
43. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Isocrates
subjective idealism
Against the Sophists
in the home
44. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
Abraham Lincoln
metaphysics
trivium
Zeno
45. Started naturalism
Thoreau
Trivium and Quadrivium
revelation
Sir Francis Bacon
46. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
naturalism
First Amendment activists
Blessing
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
47. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
hairsplitting
confidence
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
liberal learning
48. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
multiculturalism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Neil Postman
potentiality
49. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
virtue
idealist value theory
particularism
normative
50. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
quadrivium
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
postermodernist literary ideas
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