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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
philosophical idealist
Outmoded
reason for sending child to public school
2. Two categories of axiology
Canon
ethics and aesthetics
casuity
Laws
3. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Liberally educated person
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
analytic philosophy
in the home
4. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
normative
innoculation method
Protagorean rationale for general education
5. What was created to protect academic freedom?
consumerism
Tenure
logic
undergraduate schools
6. Rational structure of Christian thought
self-knowledge
experimentalist aesthetic view
Neo-Platonism
dogmatic theory
7. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
fundamental part of teaching
Key elements of Greek education
Order of Trivium
8. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
controlled transaction
pure secularism
difference between leisure and amusement
goal of empiricism
9. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
Athens and Sparta
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Great defect in modern education
10. Knowledge most worth having
postmodernism
socratic method
self-knowledge
liberation to truth
11. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
postmodernist aesthetics
hairsplitting
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
12. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
virtue
hairsplitting
Plato
paideia
13. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
form
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
a healthy Christian theism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
14. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
Socrates
sole true end of education
Abraham Lincoln
existentialism
15. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
only adequate education
Materialism
Aristotle
experimentalist aesthetic view
16. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Isocrates
naturalism
noetic powers
17. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
postmodernism
vocational training
metaphysics
18. Quintessential educated medieval person
critique of great texts of western world
scholastic
Kant and George Berkeley
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
19. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Plato
division of controversial issues
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Stanley Fish
20. 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
Materialism
Stanley Fish
Protagoras
reason for sending child to public school
21. 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
Allegory of the Cave
Experimentalist aesthetics
Stanford University Students
Plato
22. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
potentiality
existence precedes essence
Athens and Sparta
confidence
23. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Tolkein approach
Amish
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
analysis
24. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Kant and George Berkeley
Sir Francis Bacon
25. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Amish
Stanford University Students
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
26. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Thoreau
Amish
Protagorean rationale for general education
organized knowledge
27. Categories of philosophy as an activity
undergraduate schools
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
potentiality
Nicomachean Ethics
28. Consisted of subjects
Order of Trivium
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Nicocles
Quadrivium
29. 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?
Epistemology
philosophical analysis
Trivium and Quadrivium
30. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
ideal language analysis
pragmatism
transcendential idealism
Jacques Derrida
31. Use women more as slaves
practical side (CDE pattern)
Thracians
Strict neutrality
aesthetics
32. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
dogmatic theory
Herodotus
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
goal of liberal education
33. 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
logic
critique of great texts of western world
Essence
Republic
34. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Plato and the arts
empirical analytics
collective Christian mind
local government
35. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Naturalism
Leisure
Strict neutrality
Athens and Sparta
36. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
complete moral education
normative
Aristotle
Epistemology
37. 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
actuality
existentialism
Arabasis
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
38. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
organized knowledge
Nicomachean Ethics
Plato's division of human decisions
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
39. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
philosophy of education
naturalistic cosmotogies
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
40. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
in the home
hallmark of liberal arts education
matter
up
41. What medievals focused on
in the home
revelation
Antidosis
Golden Mean and habit
42. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
Neil Postman
Tenure
Experimentalist view of education
43. 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
Protagoras
Canon
Against the Sophists
ordinary language analysis
44. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Nicocles
national government
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
multiculturalism
45. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
Trivium and Quadrivium
Thracians
analysis
46. Stress self-expression
Platonic concept of education
maturational theories
Cosmic dualism
Plato
47. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
self-knowledge
Antidosis
empiricism
48. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
existentialist view of education
modernity
Abraham Joshua Heschel
49. Children born from 1981-1999
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existence precedes essence
postermodernist literary ideas
fundamental part of teaching
50. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
synthetic
Nicomachean Ethics
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
liberal learning
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