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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. The 'love of wisdom'
famous attack of medievals
philosophy
philosophy of education
Herodotus
2. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
John Dewey
philosophical idealist
Integrated Education
3. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
Key elements of Greek education
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Protestant Reformation
Naturalism vs. Christianity
4. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
Athens
Antidosis
Sparta
5. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
ethics and aesthetics
Socratic method
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
6. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Thomistic realism
Athens and Sparta
Modernity
ideal language analysis
7. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
quadrivium
John Dewey
Laws
up
8. General ideas about education and their logical implications
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
famous attack of medievals
categorical imperative
theoretical issues
9. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Dead White European Male
Tenure
liberal learning
existentialism
10. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
Socrates
Thomistic realism
philosophy
11. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
paideia
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophy as a subject matter
philosophical idealist
12. Children born from 1981-1999
Experimentalist aesthetics
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Family
idealist value theory
13. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
multiculturalism
form
national government
innoculation method
14. 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
metaphysics
virtue
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Liberally educated person
15. No God
Republic
reason
Family
Naturalism vs. Christianity
16. Most famous multiculturalist project
tradition of liberal arts education
noetic powers
critique of great texts of western world
vocational training
17. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
philosophical analysis
a healthy Christian theism
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
local government
18. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Latin
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
postmodernist theory of education
California and Texas
19. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Pluralism
subjective idealism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
20. 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
philosophy of education
Allegory of the Cave
subjective idealism
21. A specific body of info every American should know
Athens and Sparta
controlled transaction
cultural literacy
quadrivium
22. 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
naturalistic cosmotogies
First Amendment activists
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
23. Philosophy is both...?
analytic philosophy
hubris
dialectic
a subject matter and an activity
24. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Against the Sophists
Experimentalist view of education
Athens and Sparta
particularism
25. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
religious zealots
Epistemology
Protestant Reformation
normative
26. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Protagorean rationale for general education
Experimentalist aesthetics
Individual Christian mind
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
27. Stress self-expression
state
maturational theories
empirical analytics
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
28. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
matter
X Generation
only adequate education
worldview
29. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Lyceum
postermodernist literary ideas
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Aristotle
30. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
value neutrality
Euthydemus
Laws
Xenophon
31. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
form
existentialist aesthetics
hubris
32. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
particularism
Panathenaicus
preciseness
33. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
hallmark of liberal arts education
Trivium and Quadrivium
Protagoras
Hellenica
34. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
form
confidence
Outmoded
35. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
Order of Trivium
Protestant Reformation
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
36. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Middle Ages
truth from narratives and story-telling
Laws
37. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
a subject matter and an activity
idealist value theory
sole true end of education
hubris
38. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
national government
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
scholastic
39. What do Americans have the most of in education?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
confidence
naturalism
potentiality
40. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
epitome of postmodern person
socialization theories
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
hubris
41. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
subjective idealism
Isocrates
undergraduate schools
Pluralism
42. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Epistemology
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
reader-response theory
Amish
43. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Golden Mean and habit
idealist metaphysics
religious zealots
cultural literacy
44. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
goal of liberal education
national government
Tenure
local government
45. 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
active
Plato
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Great defect in modern education
46. Quintessential educated medieval person
X Generation
scholastic
reason for sending child to public school
consumerism
47. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
controlled transaction
a healthy Christian theism
trivium
goal of empiricism
48. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
liberal learning
experimentalist aesthetic view
Arabasis
49. 'What is valuable?'
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
axiology
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Plato and the arts
50. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
responsibility theory
Euthydemus
pragmatism
maturational theories
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