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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 'What is good?'
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
socratic method
ethics
2. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Postmodernity educational practice
Individual Christian mind
pragmatism
Theology
3. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
naturalistic cosmotogies
consumerism
ages that Trivium should be used
epitome of postmodern person
4. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
Socratic method
aesthetics
consumerism
5. Capability to change in certain ways
X Generation
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
tradition of liberal arts education
potentiality
6. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Hindu Patheism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
cognitive-stage theories
dialectic
7. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
rejected
Against the Sophists
worldview
8. 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
ordinary language analysis
Tenure
Leisure
Golden Mean and habit
9. 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;
transcendential idealism
postmodernism
Laws
X Generation
10. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Liberally educated person
synthetic
Thoreau
Athens
11. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
atheistic wing of existentialism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Liberally educated person
John Dewey
12. Good and evil in constant battle
Liberally educated person
Cosmic dualism
Naturalism
empirical analytics
13. Two main philosophers of idealism
state
Kant and George Berkeley
metaphysics
existentialist view of education
14. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Monkey Trial
casuity
First Amendment activists
existence precedes essence
15. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
rhetoric
experimentalist aesthetic view
philosophy
Epicurus
16. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
Politics
religious zealots
division of controversial issues
17. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
liberal learning
truth from narratives and story-telling
actuality
18. Knowledge most worth having
Thomistic realism
preciseness
self-knowledge
dialectic
19. 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
noetic powers
metaphysics
famous attack of medievals
Plato and the arts
20. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
reason for sending child to public school
Hellenica
general education
existence precedes essence
21. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Euthydemus
liberation to truth
hallmark of liberal arts education
Isocrates
22. Nature of any given thing
practical issues
Pluralism
X Generation
Essence
23. Aspect which makes something tangible
Aristotle
Naturalist aim of education
ages that Trivium should be used
matter
24. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
existentialist view of education
pragmatism
Plato and the arts
liberation to truth
25. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Plato
general education
mirror of society and critic of society
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
26. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
philosophy as a subject matter
Tenure
up
Quadrivium
27. 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
cultural literacy
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
famous attack of medievals
28. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
revelation
Allegory of the Cave
responsibility theory
Sigmund Freud
29. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
existence precedes essence
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
experiential
Integrated Education
30. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Individual Christian mind
mirror of society and critic of society
Sigmund Freud
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
31. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
ideal language analysis
Platonic concept of education
Blessing
Modernity
32. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
postmodernist theory of education
conceptual mapping
embrace them intellectually
rejected
33. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
existence precedes essence
ordinary language analysis
ethics
Peterson
34. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
only adequate education
value neutrality
Tenure
35. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Monkey Trial
dialectic
Nicomachean Ethics
postmodernist aesthetics
36. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
matter
Aristotle
scholastic
Blessing
37. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
complete moral education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
liberal education and career training
38. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Republic
sole true end of education
Platonic concept of education
39. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
epitome of postmodern person
innoculation method
normative philosophy of education
Republic
40. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
confidence
Isocrates
Liberally educated person
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
41. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Golden Mean and habit
postmodernist aesthetics
Dorian music
Laws
42. Two categories of axiology
casuity
Family
ethics and aesthetics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
43. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
normative
Laws
worldview
a healthy Christian theism
44. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Abraham Lincoln
Dorian music
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
45. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
Platonic concept of education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
reason
46. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Cosmic dualism
Allegory of the Cave
hallmark of liberal arts education
Justice and meritocracy
47. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Amish
Family
analysis
Stanley Fish
48. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
embrace them intellectually
arete
Key elements of Greek education
Aristotle
49. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
X Generation
innoculation method
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
50. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
actuality
existentialist aesthetics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice