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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
naturalism
local government
state
Stanley Fish
2. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
Naturalism vs. Christianity
idealist value theory
liberal education and career training
3. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
preciseness
axiology
Latin
undergraduate schools
4. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Republic
Platonic concept of education
Experimentalist view of education
Strict neutrality
5. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
existentialist aesthetics
First Amendment activists
truth from narratives and story-telling
dialectic
6. 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
rejected
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Liberally educated person
Aristotle
7. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Criticism of existentialism
Naturalist aim of education
reason for sending child to public school
liberal education and career training
8. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
flute
Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophical idealist
Naturalist aim of education
9. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
reader-response theory
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Plato's division of human decisions
Postmodernity educational practice
10. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
hallmark of liberal arts education
form
existentialist view of education
Naturalist aim of education
11. Consisted of subjects
reader-response theory
Quadrivium
pragmatism
Experimentalist view of education
12. What is a 'DWEM'?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
liberal education and career training
normative
Dead White European Male
13. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
tradition of liberal arts education
form
14. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
worldview
normative
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
15. Learning is...
state
active
potentiality
linguistic descriptions
16. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
general education
Protagorean rationale for general education
Naturalist aim of education
tradition of liberal arts education
17. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
Thoreau
Peterson
Isocrates
practical issues
18. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
quadrivium
Thomistic realism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
philosophical idealist
19. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
Monkey Trial
ethics and aesthetics
famous attack of medievals
20. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Zeno
Plato
consumerism
existentialism
21. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Outmoded
Dead White European Male
value neutrality
22. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
philosophical idealist
value neutrality
criticism of latin
23. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Hindu Patheism
ordinary language analysis
Experimentalist values
Sigmund Freud
24. 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
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Materialism
paideia
25. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
existentialism
Abraham Lincoln
famous attack of medievals
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
26. What is the building block of civilization?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
ethics and aesthetics
Family
27. Good and evil in constant battle
X Generation
Allegory of the Cave
Monkey Trial
Cosmic dualism
28. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Middle Ages
existentialist view of education
philosophy of education
actuality
29. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
Middle Ages
Memorabilia
philosophy
30. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
Dead White European Male
Latin
Monkey Trial
31. 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
division of controversial issues
metaphysics
theoretical issues
practical issues
32. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Stanford University Students
trivium
general education
Plato
33. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
multiculturalism
normative
metaphysics
Epistemology
34. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
ethics and aesthetics
postmodernity
goal of liberal education
empirical analytics
35. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
fundamental part of teaching
Allegory of the Cave
a subject matter and an activity
36. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Strict neutrality
transcendential idealism
Protestant Reformation
Epistemology
37. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Panathenaicus
theoretical issues
Postmodernity educational practice
noetic powers
38. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Laws
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Athens
Plato
39. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
virtue
Thomistic realism
Aristotle
naturalism
40. 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)
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
practical issues
Nicomachean Ethics
existentialism
41. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Memorabilia
revelation
socratic method
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
42. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
casuity
fundamental part of teaching
socialization theories
active
43. 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
Hellenica
tradition of liberal arts education
Monkey Trial
Socratic method
44. 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
Euthydemus
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Protagorean rationale for general education
California and Texas
45. 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
philosophy of education
Protestant Reformation
Golden Mean and habit
practical issues
46. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Trivium and Quadrivium
metaphysics
Nicocles
postmodernist theory of education
47. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
general education
postmodernist aesthetics
axiology
Amish
48. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
responsibility theory
Individual Christian mind
Protagoras
local government
49. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Thomistic realism
empirical analytics
Sparta
division of controversial issues
50. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Peterson
Thoreau
cognitive-stage theories
multiculturalism