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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
atheistic wing of existentialism
innoculation method
existentialist aesthetics
2. 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
ages that Trivium should be used
analysis
liberation to truth
theistic wing of existentialism
3. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Neil Postman
Euthydemus
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Sir Francis Bacon
4. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
local government
Socratic method
up
analytic philosophy
5. Nature of any given thing
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Naturalist aim of education
noetic powers
Essence
6. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
X Generation
socratic method
Hellenica
7. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Laws
epitome of postmodern person
First Amendment activists
Outmoded
8. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
empirical analytics
cognitive
Trivium and Quadrivium
Materialism
9. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
Protestant Reformation
truth from narratives and story-telling
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
10. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
Essence
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Isocrates
multiculturalism
11. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
innoculation method
Epistemology
Sir Francis Bacon
a healthy Christian theism
12. 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
potentiality
philosophy
Nicocles
Blessing
13. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
scholastic
socratic method
Leisure
14. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
mirror of society and critic of society
Euthydemus
quadrivium
controlled transaction
15. What is a 'DWEM'?
rejected
Dead White European Male
Antidosis
Outmoded
16. 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
Sigmund Freud
Aristotle
happiness
Stanford University Students
17. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
state
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Stanford University Students
Allegory of the Cave
18. 3 traditional philosophies of education
national government
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Sophists
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
19. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
state
local government
goal of liberal education
Essence
20. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Abraham Lincoln
goal of liberal education
experiential
ideal language analysis
21. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
Plato
arete
goal of empiricism
22. To teach men how to learn for themselves
national government
normative philosophy of education
sole true end of education
Family
23. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
rejected
practical issues
local government
existentialist view of education
24. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
value neutrality
Hellenica
leaner-centered approach
25. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
pragmatism
state
naturalism
Leisure
26. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Epicurus
Order of Trivium
postermodernist literary ideas
transcendential idealism
27. What do Americans have the most of in education?
liberal education and career training
idealist metaphysics
confidence
Experimentalist aesthetics
28. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
conceptual mapping
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
liberal learning
Jacques Derrida
29. 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
ordinary language analysis
hairsplitting
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
30. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Kant and George Berkeley
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
in the home
31. Experience is reality; activity-based
Peterson
pragmatism
casuity
xenophon
32. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Republic
Socrates
Kant and George Berkeley
philosophy as a subject matter
33. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
matter
Laws
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Thoreau
34. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
linguistic descriptions
particularism
quadrivium
state
35. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
Outmoded
Aristotle
transcendential idealism
36. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Dorian music
California and Texas
sole true end of education
Platonic concept of education
37. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Experimentalist values
Criticism of existentialism
Golden Mean and habit
38. Most famous multiculturalist project
normative philosophy of education
idealist value theory
critique of great texts of western world
Lyceum
39. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
cognitive
rhetoric
Sir Francis Bacon
categorical imperative
40. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
practical issues
famous attack of medievals
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Amish
41. 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
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Nicomachean Ethics
Stanford University Students
Protagorean rationale for general education
42. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
epitome of postmodern person
value neutrality
synthetic
Athens
43. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Hindu Patheism
Amish
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
truth from narratives and story-telling
44. What is the building block of civilization?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
actuality
a subject matter and an activity
Family
45. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
goal of liberal education
First Amendment activists
conceptual mapping
theistic wing of existentialism
46. 'What is valuable?'
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
axiology
sauromatides
John Dewey
47. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
Socrates
Socratic method
aesthetics
Dorian music
48. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
mirror of society and critic of society
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Amish
49. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Postmodernity educational practice
Sigmund Freud
Athens
Outmoded
50. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
general education
general education
cognitive-stage theories
Experimentalist values