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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
sauromatides
sole true end of education
Euthydemus
2. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Experimentalist aesthetics
only adequate education
Hellenica
responsibility theory
3. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
existentialist view of education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Isocrates
philosophical idealist
4. Father of History
Naturalist aim of education
Herodotus
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Latin
5. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
pragmatism
X Generation
particularism
goal of empiricism
6. Philosophy is both...?
Tolkein approach
Order of Trivium
Arabasis
a subject matter and an activity
7. 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
particularism
Naturalism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Republic
8. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
matter
Tolkein approach
liberal learning
9. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
existentialism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
fundamental part of teaching
dialectic
10. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
liberal learning
Peterson
Naturalism
criticism of latin
11. 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
Nicocles
First Amendment activists
Republic
Republic
12. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Thracians
Stanley Fish
Isocrates
Sir Francis Bacon
13. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Materialism
confidence
matter
Xenophon
14. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Tolkein approach
confidence
responsibility theory
15. 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
Postmodernity educational practice
Integrated Education
theistic wing of existentialism
analytic philosophy
16. Music should be studied with a view to what?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Neo-Platonism
mirror of society and critic of society
sauromatides
17. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
normative philosophy of education
Abraham Lincoln
First Amendment activists
in the home
18. 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
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
metaphysics
Athens
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
19. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Leisure
philosophical analysis
liberation to truth
potentiality
20. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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21. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
virtue
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Protagoras
22. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Individual Christian mind
idealist value theory
particularism
cognitive-stage theories
23. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
analysis
famous attack of medievals
flute
Naturalist aim of education
24. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Against the Sophists
Thoreau
Allegory of the Cave
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
25. Knowledge most worth having
pragmatism
philosophy
self-knowledge
tradition of liberal arts education
26. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
California and Texas
descriptive
casuity
27. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Cosmic dualism
Modernity
Canon
Aristotle
28. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
pure secularism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
cultural literacy
29. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
subjective idealism
naturalistic cosmotogies
Antidosis
theoretical issues
30. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
hairsplitting
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
existence precedes essence
Sophists
31. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Zeno
state
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
32. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
First Amendment activists
Protagoras
Plato and the arts
flute
33. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
philosophical idealist
in the home
fundamental part of teaching
34. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
paideia
linguistic descriptions
Xenophon
35. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
cultural literacy
Postmodernity educational practice
Protagoras
36. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Protagorean rationale for general education
Materialism
socratic method
37. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
particularism
Xenophon
up
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
38. What is a 'DWEM'?
state
Republic
Dead White European Male
Materialism
39. 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
Aristotle
existentialism
Isocrates
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
40. 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
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Platonic concept of education
41. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
Stanley Fish
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
difference between leisure and amusement
up
42. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
virtue
postmodernist aesthetics
Dorian music
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
43. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Epicurus
Sigmund Freud
naturalistic cosmotogies
44. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Experimentalist view of education
metaphysics
descriptive
reason
45. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
analytic philosophy
ordinary language analysis
46. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
Tenure
Antidosis
difference between leisure and amusement
47. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
a healthy Christian theism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Protagorean rationale for general education
48. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Integrated Education
existentialism
controlled transaction
Naturalism vs. Christianity
49. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Criticism of existentialism
John Dewey
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Experimentalist view of education
50. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
descriptive
Outmoded