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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What was created to protect academic freedom?
idealist value theory
Athens and Sparta
Tenure
empiricism
2. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Aristotle
quadrivium
Stanford University Students
Aristotle
3. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
actuality
liberation to truth
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Justice and meritocracy
4. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
Protagoras
Protagorean rationale for general education
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
5. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
descriptive
Justice and meritocracy
consumerism
conceptual mapping
6. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
existence precedes essence
actuality
truth from narratives and story-telling
7. What medievals focused on
critique of great texts of western world
Abraham Joshua Heschel
revelation
idealist value theory
8. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
existentialist view of education
naturalism
Integrated Education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
9. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
ordinary language analysis
Athens
naturalistic cosmotogies
10. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Neo-Platonism
empiricism
vocational training
Neil Postman
11. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
categorical imperative
Herodotus
philosophy as a subject matter
innoculation method
12. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
Against the Sophists
arete
Outmoded
13. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Individual Christian mind
Peterson
Dead White European Male
14. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
actuality
self-knowledge
quadrivium
15. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Justice and meritocracy
Nicocles
conceptual mapping
analytic philosophy
16. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Justice and meritocracy
socratic method
consumerism
Pluralism
17. 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
confidence
dialectic
Aristotle
18. Experimentalist students are to be both:
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
mirror of society and critic of society
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Dead White European Male
19. 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
existentialism
Key elements of Greek education
potentiality
20. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
Xenophon
Socrates
noetic powers
21. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
innoculation method
Politics
Republic
Kant and George Berkeley
22. 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
normative philosophy of education
mirror of society and critic of society
Jacques Derrida
23. Aspect which makes something tangible
Hellenica
Individual Christian mind
sauromatides
matter
24. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
experiential
ethics and aesthetics
undergraduate schools
Socrates
25. All knowledge is derived from the senses
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
empiricism
Plato
Key elements of Greek education
26. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Amish
Epistemology
Justice and meritocracy
27. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
Lyceum
Criticism of existentialism
experiential
28. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
Panathenaicus
sauromatides
preciseness
29. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Hellenica
Aristotle
postmodernist aesthetics
ethics
30. World is an emanation of God's own being
quadrivium
Order of Trivium
Republic
Neo-Platonism
31. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
naturalism
criticism of latin
Socratic method
noetic powers
32. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
paideia
complete moral education
pragmatism
particularism
33. 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
Tenure
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Xenophon
axiology
34. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Stanley Fish
local government
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
35. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Naturalism
rhetoric
existentialism
worldview
36. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
idealist theory of education
John Dewey
undergraduate schools
37. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
idealist value theory
Isocrates
Plato
38. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
cultural literacy
postmodernist aesthetics
Aristotle
happiness
39. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
Protagoras
Athens
Jacques Derrida
reader-response theory
40. 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
Dead White European Male
pragmatism
analytic philosophy
Republic
41. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
idealist theory of education
California and Texas
noetic powers
42. Experience is reality; activity-based
Justice and meritocracy
Epistemology
pragmatism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
43. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
hubris
religious zealots
Stanley Fish
44. Consisted of subjects
maturational theories
happiness
Abraham Lincoln
Quadrivium
45. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
Panathenaicus
Laws
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
religious zealots
46. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
liberation to truth
Thomistic realism
existentialism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
47. What the medievals are criticized for
Laws
normative
hairsplitting
organized knowledge
48. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
criticism of latin
Isocrates
Strict neutrality
Protagoras
49. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Platonic concept of education
First Amendment activists
postmodernity
50. 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
Liberally educated person
linguistic descriptions
matter
Protestant Reformation