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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
Order of Trivium
Protagoras
Thomistic realism
2. 'What is good?'
Socratic method
Republic
analytic
ethics
3. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
postmodernist theory of education
general education
Aristotle
collective Christian mind
4. 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?'
controlled transaction
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Athens
Key elements of Greek education
5. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
existence precedes essence
descriptive
Sigmund Freud
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
6. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
leaner-centered approach
synthetic
existentialism
7. Two main philosophers of idealism
Nicocles
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Kant and George Berkeley
Aristotle
8. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
local government
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Modernity
9. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
preciseness
dialectic
idealist theory of education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
10. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Dorian music
Liberally educated person
liberal education and career training
Herodotus
11. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Amish
Thomistic realism
Thoreau
worldview
12. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Epicurus
truth from narratives and story-telling
analysis
ethics
13. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
xenophon
paideia
Sir Francis Bacon
normative
14. Concept of the beautiful
goal of liberal education
aesthetics
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Middle Ages
15. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Amish
Materialism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
16. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Isocrates
17. 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
existentialist aesthetics
postmodernist theory of education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
rhetoric
18. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
Canon
quadrivium
Plato
19. 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
Plato
First Amendment activists
existence precedes essence
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
20. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
metaphysics
naturalism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Thomistic realism
21. All knowledge is derived from the senses
reason for sending child to public school
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Lyceum
empiricism
22. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
a subject matter and an activity
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
famous attack of medievals
goal of empiricism
23. What medievals focused on
rejected
critique of great texts of western world
revelation
Republic
24. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
categorical imperative
Stanford University Students
Epicurus
goal of liberal education
25. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
normative philosophy of education
Socratic method
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
26. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Materialism
logic
socratic method
Arabasis
27. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
categorical imperative
socialization theories
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
28. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Theology
John Dewey
philosophy of education
Leisure
29. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
analytic
linguistic descriptions
Panathenaicus
liberation to truth
30. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
reader-response theory
linguistic descriptions
maturational theories
31. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
analytic
Republic
descriptive
synthetic
32. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Nicomachean Ethics
philosophical analysis
X Generation
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
33. What Greeks mostly focused on
Amish
categorical imperative
division of controversial issues
reason
34. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
liberal learning
postmodernity
Family
Blessing
35. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Arabasis
mirror of society and critic of society
ethics
Nicocles
36. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
theistic wing of existentialism
epitome of postmodern person
idealist metaphysics
ethics and aesthetics
37. Children born from 1981-1999
Thracians
casuity
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
particularism
38. 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?
Liberally educated person
idealist metaphysics
responsibility theory
39. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Plato's division of human decisions
socratic method
hallmark of liberal arts education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
40. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
trivium
rhetoric
Naturalism
41. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
analytic
Tolkein approach
Cosmic dualism
existentialist aesthetics
42. 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
embrace them intellectually
collective Christian mind
Trivium and Quadrivium
Euthydemus
43. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
postmodernist aesthetics
Protestant Reformation
Family
Laws
44. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
existentialism
in the home
categorical imperative
Protagorean rationale for general education
45. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
socialization theories
Sparta
goal of liberal education
reader-response theory
46. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
pragmatism
Sir Francis Bacon
liberal learning
47. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
California and Texas
Neo-Platonism
Isocrates
Leisure
48. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
collective Christian mind
preciseness
innoculation method
reason for sending child to public school
49. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
state
active
Modernity
Neo-Platonism
50. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
reason
particularism
Sparta