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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Socratic method
subjective idealism
Plato's division of human decisions
goal of empiricism
2. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
Panathenaicus
criticism of latin
Platonic concept of education
existentialism
3. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
criticism of latin
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
reason for sending child to public school
4. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Laws
Middle Ages
normative
Protagoras
5. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
Protagoras
atheistic wing of existentialism
Neil Postman
Justice and meritocracy
6. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Isocrates
value neutrality
mirror of society and critic of society
Xenophon
7. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Laws
Justice and meritocracy
Panathenaicus
vocational training
8. 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?'
sauromatides
epitome of postmodern person
Key elements of Greek education
Sophists
9. Two categories of axiology
experimentalist aesthetic view
ethics and aesthetics
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
responsibility theory
10. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Athens
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
liberal education and career training
11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
descriptive
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Against the Sophists
12. Stress self-expression
maturational theories
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Politics
Against the Sophists
13. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
empirical analytics
Socrates
existentialism
value neutrality
14. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
potentiality
cognitive-stage theories
Neo-Platonism
Republic
15. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
hairsplitting
modernity
criticism of latin
16. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Individual Christian mind
Hellenica
Arabasis
postmodernist theory of education
17. 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
Criticism of existentialism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
trivium
Aristotle
18. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
John Dewey
Naturalist aim of education
Laws
Abraham Lincoln
19. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
Integrated Education
analytic philosophy
Naturalism
naturalism
20. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Great defect in modern education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
ideal language analysis
preciseness
21. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
philosophical idealist
practical side (CDE pattern)
22. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
truth from narratives and story-telling
local government
Criticism of existentialism
philosophical analysis
23. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Trivium and Quadrivium
Zeno
Athens
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
24. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
ethics and aesthetics
Hindu Patheism
empirical analytics
preciseness
25. List of works that have always been studied
analytic
Isocrates
Monkey Trial
Canon
26. 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
postmodernism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
synthetic
theistic wing of existentialism
27. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
paideia
hallmark of liberal arts education
28. Experimentalist students are to be both:
general education
mirror of society and critic of society
Quadrivium
Tolkein approach
29. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
tradition of liberal arts education
Kant and George Berkeley
Canon
30. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
responsibility theory
Naturalist aim of education
Isocrates
paideia
31. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
Republic
dialectic
vocational training
32. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
existentialist view of education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Protagoras
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
33. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
naturalism
philosophy
socialization theories
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
34. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
division of controversial issues
pragmatism
Sophists
normative
35. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
X Generation
Politics
Naturalism
36. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Experimentalist view of education
virtue
worldview
37. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Pluralism
division of controversial issues
Protestant Reformation
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
38. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
experimentalist aesthetic view
ethics and aesthetics
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
complete moral education
39. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
idealist metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics
Plato and the arts
philosophical idealist
40. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
philosophy of education
transcendential idealism
quadrivium
experiential
41. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Laws
John Dewey
Golden Mean and habit
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
42. Good and evil in constant battle
socialization theories
mirror of society and critic of society
Thracians
Cosmic dualism
43. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
Republic
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
goal of liberal education
Neil Postman
44. Music should be studied with a view to what?
categorical imperative
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Leisure
Jacques Derrida
45. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
religious zealots
Neo-Platonism
subjective idealism
a healthy Christian theism
46. Father of History
Liberally educated person
rhetoric
Order of Trivium
Herodotus
47. 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
vocational training
Essence
ordinary language analysis
Lyceum
48. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
theoretical issues
analytic philosophy
First Amendment activists
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
49. World is permeated by divine essence
Peterson
casuity
Hindu Patheism
xenophon
50. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
responsibility theory
Allegory of the Cave
liberal education and career training