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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
aesthetics
John Dewey
Canon
philosophy as a subject matter
2. Portion of being
Modernity
actuality
Experimentalist aesthetics
value neutrality
3. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
Socratic method
Justice and meritocracy
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
4. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
Dorian music
existentialism
Athens
normative philosophy of education
5. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Plato's division of human decisions
famous attack of medievals
Essence
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
6. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
Peterson
naturalistic cosmotogies
rejected
7. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
form
Hindu Patheism
Plato
Plato's division of human decisions
8. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Blessing
hallmark of liberal arts education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
9. 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
Athens
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
conceptual mapping
10. 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
sauromatides
Plato
existentialism
general education
11. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
cultural literacy
Experimentalist aesthetics
potentiality
12. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Jacques Derrida
Dead White European Male
philosophy of education
synthetic
13. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
vocational training
transcendential idealism
experimentalist aesthetic view
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
14. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
axiology
goal of liberal education
casuity
cognitive-stage theories
15. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Isocrates
16. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
First Amendment activists
noetic powers
cognitive-stage theories
17. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
pure secularism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existentialist aesthetics
18. One that shapes the whole person
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Arabasis
leaner-centered approach
only adequate education
19. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
Republic
Cosmic dualism
Thoreau
20. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
subjective idealism
Socrates
general education
21. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Postmodernity educational practice
modernity
22. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
pure secularism
existentialism
Isocrates
23. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
arete
Theology
Politics
experiential
24. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
philosophical analysis
ages that Trivium should be used
existentialist view of education
25. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
criticism of latin
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Athens
categorical imperative
26. Knowledge most worth having
in the home
Peterson
Politics
self-knowledge
27. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
tradition of liberal arts education
Xenophon
worldview
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
28. Most famous multiculturalist project
Individual Christian mind
critique of great texts of western world
logic
postmodernism
29. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Middle Ages
form
30. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Euthydemus
xenophon
Hellenica
31. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
Protagoras
Individual Christian mind
Experimentalist aesthetics
32. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Peterson
Tolkein approach
Allegory of the Cave
confidence
33. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Platonic concept of education
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
34. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
Family
idealist theory of education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
35. 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
postmodernist theory of education
worldview
xenophon
liberation to truth
36. 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
Abraham Lincoln
Neil Postman
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Plato and the arts
37. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Strict neutrality
potentiality
metaphysics
38. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
ethics
rhetoric
idealist metaphysics
Latin
39. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
noetic powers
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
descriptive
40. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
categorical imperative
experimentalist aesthetic view
Thoreau
Strict neutrality
41. 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;
postmodernism
logic
hallmark of liberal arts education
Zeno
42. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
difference between leisure and amusement
Naturalism
empiricism
43. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
pure secularism
philosophical analysis
Athens and Sparta
Strict neutrality
44. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
a subject matter and an activity
theistic wing of existentialism
practical issues
existentialist view of education
45. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
organized knowledge
Nicocles
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
xenophon
46. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Aristotle
mirror of society and critic of society
flute
religious zealots
47. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Athens and Sparta
value neutrality
Memorabilia
experimentalist aesthetic view
48. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
preciseness
happiness
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
experimentalist aesthetic view
49. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
metaphysics
cognitive-stage theories
multiculturalism
sole true end of education
50. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Liberally educated person
existentialist aesthetics
Athens
logic
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