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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Panathenaicus
ages that Trivium should be used
Xenophon
2. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Plato
vocational training
Abraham Lincoln
Republic
3. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Xenophon
Abraham Lincoln
famous attack of medievals
4. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
ordinary language analysis
Protagoras
Xenophon
Great defect in modern education
5. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
normative
ordinary language analysis
subjective idealism
multiculturalism
6. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Plato
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophy of education
Athens
7. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
experimentalist aesthetic view
Stanley Fish
Leisure
8. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
existentialist view of education
Athens
famous attack of medievals
9. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
socratic method
state
linguistic descriptions
10. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
Herodotus
Leisure
liberal education and career training
normative philosophy of education
11. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Family
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Middle Ages
12. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
Platonic concept of education
Great defect in modern education
ordinary language analysis
13. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
Protagorean rationale for general education
Plato and the arts
reader-response theory
14. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
cognitive-stage theories
in the home
15. World is permeated by divine essence
Dead White European Male
Theology
Hindu Patheism
Sophists
16. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
undergraduate schools
casuity
socialization theories
Socrates
17. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
cognitive-stage theories
Family
xenophon
noetic powers
18. Encourages individual choice
Plato's division of human decisions
experimentalist aesthetic view
self-knowledge
existentialism
19. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
idealist metaphysics
embrace them intellectually
modernity
cognitive-stage theories
20. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
Abraham Joshua Heschel
rhetoric
Protagorean rationale for general education
21. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
virtue
analytic
Integrated Education
22. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
existence precedes essence
Stanley Fish
Protagoras
23. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
Against the Sophists
consumerism
Middle Ages
24. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Xenophon
general education
national government
Dead White European Male
25. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Trivium and Quadrivium
arete
idealist value theory
Jacques Derrida
26. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
form
Family
noetic powers
aesthetics
27. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Experimentalist values
active
in the home
existentialist aesthetics
28. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Naturalism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
ethics and aesthetics
Thomistic realism
29. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Thomistic realism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
preciseness
liberal education and career training
30. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
ordinary language analysis
Epicurus
reason for sending child to public school
confidence
31. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
rhetoric
Plato and the arts
experimentalist aesthetic view
Thracians
32. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
organized knowledge
Against the Sophists
33. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
pragmatism
experiential
34. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Amish
liberation to truth
empirical analytics
a healthy Christian theism
35. 1600s; get to truth through science
Sir Francis Bacon
existentialism
modernity
epitome of postmodern person
36. 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
a healthy Christian theism
Nicomachean Ethics
epitome of postmodern person
Plato
37. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Order of Trivium
hallmark of liberal arts education
Sigmund Freud
form
38. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Panathenaicus
Antidosis
Trivium and Quadrivium
39. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Zeno
famous attack of medievals
Protagorean rationale for general education
40. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
Plato
Outmoded
Neil Postman
41. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
idealist value theory
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Socratic method
philosophical idealist
42. A specific body of info every American should know
Athens
linguistic descriptions
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
cultural literacy
43. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
Order of Trivium
hubris
Cosmic dualism
ethics
44. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Naturalism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
virtue
45. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
Experimentalist values
reason
a healthy Christian theism
46. 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
Stanford University Students
categorical imperative
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Protagoras
47. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
subjective idealism
ethics
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Pluralism
48. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Thomistic realism
existentialism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Strict neutrality
49. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
axiology
vocational training
analytic philosophy
50. Children born from 1981-1999
self-knowledge
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Peterson
general education