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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Trivium and Quadrivium
philosophical idealist
2. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Tenure
Modernity
value neutrality
embrace them intellectually
3. Learning is...
Aristotle
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
active
responsibility theory
4. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Middle Ages
Theology
Naturalist aim of education
flute
5. 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;
postmodernism
Plato's division of human decisions
complete moral education
Zeno
6. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
Monkey Trial
Outmoded
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
hubris
7. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
analytic
analytic philosophy
axiology
Experimentalist aesthetics
8. 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
postmodernity
Jacques Derrida
Nicocles
Xenophon
9. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
postmodernism
experimentalist aesthetic view
Neil Postman
form
10. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
philosophy of education
liberal learning
Against the Sophists
11. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
Herodotus
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Nicomachean Ethics
embrace them intellectually
12. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
virtue
pragmatism
categorical imperative
13. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Leisure
transcendential idealism
value neutrality
Socratic method
14. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
ethics and aesthetics
existentialism
First Amendment activists
subjective idealism
15. Experimentalist students are to be both:
embrace them intellectually
innoculation method
mirror of society and critic of society
philosophical idealist
16. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
liberation to truth
Athens
reader-response theory
descriptive
17. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Trivium and Quadrivium
embrace them intellectually
local government
reason for sending child to public school
18. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Cosmic dualism
maturational theories
Great defect in modern education
normative
19. 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)
Isocrates
truth from narratives and story-telling
Euthydemus
existentialism
20. World is an emanation of God's own being
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Xenophon
Neo-Platonism
Integrated Education
21. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
existentialism
Pluralism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Socrates
22. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
cognitive-stage theories
consumerism
23. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
postermodernist literary ideas
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
national government
Aristotle
24. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
transcendential idealism
reason
Aristotle
normative philosophy of education
25. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
Naturalist aim of education
Naturalism vs. Christianity
rhetoric
26. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
preciseness
Integrated Education
Republic
27. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
practical side (CDE pattern)
Protagoras
Allegory of the Cave
active
28. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Golden Mean and habit
worldview
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
potentiality
29. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
First Amendment activists
organized knowledge
Panathenaicus
idealist metaphysics
30. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
naturalistic cosmotogies
Plato
Republic
31. List of works that have always been studied
dialectic
organized knowledge
Canon
California and Texas
32. What the medievals are criticized for
hairsplitting
practical issues
embrace them intellectually
division of controversial issues
33. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Integrated Education
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Experimentalist view of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
34. Categories of philosophy as an activity
subjective idealism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Kant and George Berkeley
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
35. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
liberal learning
naturalistic cosmotogies
analysis
particularism
36. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Nicomachean Ethics
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Experimentalist values
Thoreau
37. Aspect which makes something tangible
Athens
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
matter
Kant and George Berkeley
38. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Neil Postman
Experimentalist view of education
local government
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
39. 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
Sigmund Freud
tradition of liberal arts education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Latin
40. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Arabasis
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Epicurus
naturalistic cosmotogies
41. 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
Experimentalist aesthetics
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
ordinary language analysis
arete
42. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
general education
Dorian music
Postmodernity educational practice
complete moral education
43. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
Nicocles
cognitive-stage theories
John Dewey
44. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
happiness
Plato and the arts
hairsplitting
45. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
ideal language analysis
Plato
transcendential idealism
X Generation
46. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Aristotle
pragmatism
Aristotle
liberation to truth
47. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
particularism
Epistemology
Isocrates
embrace them intellectually
48. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
tradition of liberal arts education
Sir Francis Bacon
multiculturalism
Republic
49. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Sparta
Experimentalist aesthetics
Socratic method
Zeno
50. 3 traditional philosophies of education
normative
Experimentalist aesthetics
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism