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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Politics
Latin
liberal learning
Tenure
2. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
happiness
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
cognitive-stage theories
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
3. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Monkey Trial
existentialism
4. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
idealist value theory
leaner-centered approach
epitome of postmodern person
conceptual mapping
5. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Protagoras
philosophical analysis
Nicomachean Ethics
potentiality
6. 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
Dead White European Male
Panathenaicus
idealist theory of education
Protagoras
7. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
synthetic
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Isocrates
California and Texas
8. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
value neutrality
national government
potentiality
9. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
reason
Sigmund Freud
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
xenophon
10. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
a subject matter and an activity
liberation to truth
11. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
linguistic descriptions
responsibility theory
cognitive-stage theories
12. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Panathenaicus
Cosmic dualism
philosophical idealist
analysis
13. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Latin
Dorian music
Platonic concept of education
14. Nature of any given thing
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Experimentalist aesthetics
Essence
Plato's division of human decisions
15. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
revelation
analytic philosophy
Leisure
16. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Plato's division of human decisions
quadrivium
sauromatides
Laws
17. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Zeno
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Experimentalist aesthetics
18. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
socratic method
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
experiential
Abraham Lincoln
19. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
matter
Sophists
existentialism
20. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Laws
analytic
Stanford University Students
Thoreau
21. 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
philosophy of education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
noetic powers
Athens
22. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Postmodernity educational practice
empirical analytics
analysis
Justice and meritocracy
23. 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
Protagorean rationale for general education
Liberally educated person
in the home
local government
24. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
existentialism
theistic wing of existentialism
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
25. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
reason
cognitive-stage theories
Lyceum
26. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
division of controversial issues
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
27. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Dead White European Male
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
worldview
28. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
ethics and aesthetics
collective Christian mind
form
29. Quintessential educated medieval person
controlled transaction
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
socialization theories
scholastic
30. Portion of being
Individual Christian mind
empiricism
actuality
pragmatism
31. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
pure secularism
religious zealots
experimentalist aesthetic view
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
32. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
rhetoric
Golden Mean and habit
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
33. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
theistic wing of existentialism
Athens
dialectic
experiential
34. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
postmodernism
Athens
Aristotle
Stanford University Students
35. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Panathenaicus
subjective idealism
Outmoded
Naturalist aim of education
36. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
embrace them intellectually
modernity
Epistemology
37. 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
analytic philosophy
Stanley Fish
Modernity
pragmatism
38. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Postmodernity educational practice
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
postmodernity
39. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
axiology
sole true end of education
Criticism of existentialism
40. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
Antidosis
philosophical idealist
Thoreau
pragmatism
41. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Socratic method
California and Texas
Protagoras
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
42. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Athens and Sparta
John Dewey
Plato and the arts
logic
43. 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
Nicocles
Platonic concept of education
ordinary language analysis
44. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
virtue
postermodernist literary ideas
transcendential idealism
Isocrates
45. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
state
Plato
46. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Materialism
Xenophon
philosophical idealist
Protestant Reformation
47. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
ideal language analysis
Epistemology
matter
Thoreau
48. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
Essence
Peterson
existentialism
noetic powers
49. 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
virtue
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
actuality
50. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
local government
worldview
vocational training
Stanley Fish