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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Antidosis
Key elements of Greek education
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Materialism
2. Portion of being
confidence
actuality
Allegory of the Cave
Athens
3. One that shapes the whole person
self-knowledge
only adequate education
idealist theory of education
Materialism
4. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
maturational theories
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
ages that Trivium should be used
Cosmic dualism
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?'
Strict neutrality
Kant and George Berkeley
Key elements of Greek education
responsibility theory
6. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
consumerism
Liberally educated person
up
7. What Greeks mostly focused on
ideal language analysis
Neo-Platonism
reason
experimentalist aesthetic view
8. 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
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
self-knowledge
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
9. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Lyceum
Epistemology
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Hindu Patheism
10. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
normative
Aristotle
Laws
leaner-centered approach
11. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
fundamental part of teaching
First Amendment activists
philosophy
Arabasis
12. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Sophists
postermodernist literary ideas
mirror of society and critic of society
13. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Against the Sophists
transcendential idealism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Protestant Reformation
14. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existentialist view of education
dogmatic theory
15. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Plato's division of human decisions
Strict neutrality
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
socratic method
16. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
responsibility theory
Great defect in modern education
Arabasis
17. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Laws
Criticism of existentialism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
18. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
casuity
noetic powers
consumerism
19. Kant's general form of moral law
Athens
categorical imperative
in the home
dogmatic theory
20. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
embrace them intellectually
existence precedes essence
Aristotle
21. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
religious zealots
arete
Protagoras
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
22. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
innoculation method
Integrated Education
Isocrates
multiculturalism
23. Good and evil in constant battle
multiculturalism
metaphysics
idealist theory of education
Cosmic dualism
24. 'What is valuable?'
linguistic descriptions
ethics and aesthetics
controlled transaction
axiology
25. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Laws
Socrates
26. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
general education
collective Christian mind
philosophy of education
27. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
ideal language analysis
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
analysis
Stanford University Students
28. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
ages that Trivium should be used
Antidosis
naturalistic cosmotogies
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
29. Socrates' ultimate goal
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
virtue
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
30. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
Socratic method
practical side (CDE pattern)
liberal learning
Naturalist aim of education
31. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Naturalism vs. Christianity
analytic
embrace them intellectually
potentiality
32. List of works that have always been studied
virtue
Aristotle
linguistic descriptions
Canon
33. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
Zeno
Abraham Joshua Heschel
goal of liberal education
liberal education and career training
34. Use women more as slaves
religious zealots
philosophy
Thracians
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
35. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Modernity
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Naturalist aim of education
Thracians
36. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
undergraduate schools
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Golden Mean and habit
Quadrivium
37. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
responsibility theory
ages that Trivium should be used
Xenophon
Neil Postman
38. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Isocrates
maturational theories
Great defect in modern education
Tolkein approach
39. Martin Luther; John Calvin
First Amendment activists
division of controversial issues
tradition of liberal arts education
Protestant Reformation
40. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Platonic concept of education
experiential
Plato
Stanley Fish
41. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
conceptual mapping
Naturalism
Sigmund Freud
42. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Aristotle
cognitive
analysis
43. 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
reader-response theory
ordinary language analysis
reason for sending child to public school
dialectic
44. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
hubris
Politics
Athens
dialectic
45. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
goal of empiricism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
46. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
matter
in the home
Latin
47. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Leisure
Athens
sole true end of education
Dorian music
48. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
Aristotle
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Thracians
49. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Aristotle
logic
Sigmund Freud
Middle Ages
50. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
virtue
practical issues
Lyceum
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