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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Categories of philosophy as an activity
philosophy of education
Epicurus
quadrivium
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
2. 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
fundamental part of teaching
Nicocles
Plato and the arts
Laws
3. 'What is good?'
Protagorean rationale for general education
Integrated Education
ethics
Thomistic realism
4. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
rhetoric
Experimentalist aesthetics
confidence
5. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
responsibility theory
reason for sending child to public school
Abraham Joshua Heschel
6. Technology is not always a __________.
organized knowledge
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Theology
Blessing
7. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Memorabilia
Aristotle
First Amendment activists
Experimentalist aesthetics
8. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
goal of empiricism
naturalistic cosmotogies
Abraham Lincoln
difference between leisure and amusement
9. Aspect which makes something tangible
Arabasis
liberal learning
religious zealots
matter
10. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
flute
goal of empiricism
idealist value theory
Sir Francis Bacon
11. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Tenure
descriptive
happiness
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
12. 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
Sir Francis Bacon
complete moral education
Sparta
13. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Aristotle
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Strict neutrality
hubris
14. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
Isocrates
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
axiology
15. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
self-knowledge
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
logic
existentialist view of education
16. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Isocrates
goal of empiricism
17. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
ordinary language analysis
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Athens
Plato and the arts
18. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Memorabilia
Theology
analysis
transcendential idealism
19. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
postmodernism
Tolkein approach
Protagorean rationale for general education
liberal learning
20. Started naturalism
Dorian music
modernity
Plato
Sir Francis Bacon
21. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
local government
postmodernist theory of education
22. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Experimentalist values
worldview
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
23. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
empirical analytics
Liberally educated person
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
24. Philosophy is both...?
tradition of liberal arts education
Modernity
Protagoras
a subject matter and an activity
25. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
particularism
Experimentalist values
Latin
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
26. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
Materialism
Athens and Sparta
revelation
27. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
Experimentalist aesthetics
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Canon
28. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
hubris
tradition of liberal arts education
Protagoras
responsibility theory
29. 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
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Protagoras
cognitive
Dorian music
30. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Protagoras
naturalism
responsibility theory
postmodernist theory of education
31. Quintessential educated medieval person
Thomistic realism
scholastic
Latin
flute
32. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
xenophon
ordinary language analysis
Isocrates
33. 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
postmodernist aesthetics
Neo-Platonism
Hindu Patheism
34. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
X Generation
Kant and George Berkeley
scholastic
35. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
naturalism
synthetic
philosophy
36. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
socialization theories
Thomistic realism
preciseness
Hellenica
37. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
postermodernist literary ideas
Arabasis
Thomistic realism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
38. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
reason for sending child to public school
liberal education and career training
Plato and the arts
tradition of liberal arts education
39. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
California and Texas
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Zeno
40. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Naturalist aim of education
Isocrates
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
41. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Criticism of existentialism
categorical imperative
rhetoric
Socrates
42. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
vocational training
Republic
postmodernity
43. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Peterson
Strict neutrality
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Experimentalist values
44. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
cognitive-stage theories
hubris
Blessing
truth from narratives and story-telling
45. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
multiculturalism
reader-response theory
Xenophon
experimentalist aesthetic view
46. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Republic
Protagoras
happiness
Latin
47. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
postmodernist aesthetics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
state
48. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
hallmark of liberal arts education
postmodernist aesthetics
Experimentalist view of education
ideal language analysis
49. 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
logic
Aristotle
pure secularism
Panathenaicus
50. 'What is valuable?'
Protestant Reformation
conceptual mapping
Dorian music
axiology