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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Sigmund Freud
First Amendment activists
2. What do Americans have the most of in education?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
confidence
in the home
Plato
3. 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
Protagoras
Allegory of the Cave
flute
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
4. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
Nicocles
postermodernist literary ideas
rejected
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
5. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
preciseness
metaphysics
Laws
6. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Strict neutrality
Aristotle
postmodernity
7. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Materialism
Outmoded
ordinary language analysis
analysis
8. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
revelation
a healthy Christian theism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
hallmark of liberal arts education
9. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
Neo-Platonism
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Aristotle
practical issues
10. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
a healthy Christian theism
mirror of society and critic of society
Leisure
11. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
ethics
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
normative philosophy of education
X Generation
12. Consisted of subjects
arete
xenophon
Laws
Quadrivium
13. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
liberal education and career training
sole true end of education
Essence
Naturalism
14. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
active
postermodernist literary ideas
pragmatism
idealist metaphysics
15. Capability to change in certain ways
theoretical issues
local government
Sparta
potentiality
16. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
Euthydemus
truth from narratives and story-telling
responsibility theory
17. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Stanford University Students
reader-response theory
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy of education
18. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Laws
famous attack of medievals
Postmodernity educational practice
undergraduate schools
19. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
analytic philosophy
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
naturalistic cosmotogies
20. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Thracians
Epistemology
epitome of postmodern person
21. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
philosophy as a subject matter
complete moral education
arete
Athens
22. Technology is not always a __________.
undergraduate schools
Protestant Reformation
existence precedes essence
Blessing
23. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Strict neutrality
Sigmund Freud
24. 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
categorical imperative
division of controversial issues
epitome of postmodern person
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
25. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
in the home
Experimentalist view of education
rhetoric
collective Christian mind
26. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Protagorean rationale for general education
California and Texas
Middle Ages
philosophy
27. Children born from 1981-1999
Experimentalist aesthetics
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
dogmatic theory
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
28. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
theoretical issues
noetic powers
Amish
29. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
existentialist view of education
trivium
controlled transaction
subjective idealism
30. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
Jacques Derrida
value neutrality
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
31. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
idealist value theory
value neutrality
Sigmund Freud
philosophical idealist
32. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
maturational theories
Protestant Reformation
California and Texas
cognitive
33. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
existence precedes essence
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
pragmatism
organized knowledge
34. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
naturalism
existentialism
Sophists
Memorabilia
35. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Protestant Reformation
Order of Trivium
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Sophists
36. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
fundamental part of teaching
Hindu Patheism
critique of great texts of western world
atheistic wing of existentialism
37. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Hindu Patheism
Antidosis
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
38. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
Sigmund Freud
fundamental part of teaching
actuality
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
39. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
empiricism
Peterson
religious zealots
40. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
liberation to truth
Nicocles
a subject matter and an activity
41. 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
Plato
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Arabasis
Thomistic realism
42. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
goal of empiricism
multiculturalism
matter
analytic
43. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Stanley Fish
liberal education and career training
a healthy Christian theism
trivium
44. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Amish
difference between leisure and amusement
division of controversial issues
collective Christian mind
45. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
casuity
general education
division of controversial issues
idealist metaphysics
46. Stress self-expression
hairsplitting
metaphysics
maturational theories
Dead White European Male
47. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
happiness
form
philosophical analysis
48. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
hallmark of liberal arts education
Athens
Materialism
49. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Individual Christian mind
arete
Hindu Patheism
50. 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
Epicurus
Golden Mean and habit
existentialism