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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Euthydemus
active
happiness
subjective idealism
2. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Protagoras
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
confidence
tradition of liberal arts education
3. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
linguistic descriptions
embrace them intellectually
hubris
Cosmic dualism
4. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
conceptual mapping
state
flute
5. 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
existentialist view of education
Sophists
Trivium and Quadrivium
naturalistic cosmotogies
6. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Blessing
preciseness
value neutrality
Abraham Lincoln
7. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Experimentalist values
Middle Ages
axiology
conceptual mapping
8. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
Order of Trivium
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
flute
9. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Peterson
Thoreau
categorical imperative
innoculation method
10. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Criticism of existentialism
collective Christian mind
truth from narratives and story-telling
theoretical issues
11. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Monkey Trial
Republic
Justice and meritocracy
goal of liberal education
12. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Golden Mean and habit
aesthetics
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
mirror of society and critic of society
13. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
Panathenaicus
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
empirical analytics
value neutrality
14. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Great defect in modern education
fundamental part of teaching
Socratic method
Sigmund Freud
15. 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
Family
Sophists
Against the Sophists
Memorabilia
16. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
metaphysics
Experimentalist aesthetics
Protagoras
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
17. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
philosophical idealist
idealist metaphysics
Modernity
18. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Isocrates
division of controversial issues
Liberally educated person
quadrivium
19. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
existentialist view of education
philosophy
Aristotle
20. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
categorical imperative
criticism of latin
idealist theory of education
Theology
21. World is an emanation of God's own being
Republic
Materialism
sauromatides
Neo-Platonism
22. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
theoretical issues
difference between leisure and amusement
Family
maturational theories
23. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Materialism
subjective idealism
California and Texas
hairsplitting
24. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
Neil Postman
practical side (CDE pattern)
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
25. 'What is good?'
ethics
postmodernism
undergraduate schools
hallmark of liberal arts education
26. Aspect which makes something tangible
Stanley Fish
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Experimentalist values
matter
27. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Canon
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
empirical analytics
28. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
X Generation
practical side (CDE pattern)
Golden Mean and habit
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
29. Stress self-expression
philosophical idealist
happiness
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
maturational theories
30. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Postmodernity educational practice
Abraham Lincoln
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
epitome of postmodern person
31. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
Athens and Sparta
postermodernist literary ideas
goal of liberal education
32. One that shapes the whole person
Epistemology
Theology
only adequate education
Plato's division of human decisions
33. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Order of Trivium
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
organized knowledge
complete moral education
34. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
criticism 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
Neo-Platonism
analytic philosophy
35. 'Man is the measure of all things'
general education
critique of great texts of western world
rejected
Protagoras
36. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
form
Abraham Lincoln
Experimentalist aesthetics
37. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
particularism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Materialism
38. Nature of any given thing
Athens
Memorabilia
conceptual mapping
Essence
39. 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)
Epistemology
Amish
existentialism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
40. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
John Dewey
Tolkein approach
Protagoras
postmodernist theory of education
41. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
analysis
Latin
Quadrivium
Athens
42. Experience is reality; activity-based
reader-response theory
pragmatism
Plato's division of human decisions
reason
43. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
virtue
sole true end of education
goal of empiricism
Epistemology
44. What Greeks mostly focused on
analytic philosophy
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
reason
Politics
45. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
naturalism
philosophical idealist
46. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
Peterson
Jacques Derrida
Golden Mean and habit
existentialism
47. Started naturalism
analytic philosophy
Naturalist aim of education
categorical imperative
Sir Francis Bacon
48. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Monkey Trial
Materialism
Socrates
ordinary language analysis
49. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
trivium
philosophical analysis
existentialist aesthetics
Golden Mean and habit
50. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Essence
worldview
noetic powers
Athens
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