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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
existentialism
Zeno
Middle Ages
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2. List of works that have always been studied
Experimentalist aesthetics
Canon
Platonic concept of education
Jacques Derrida
3. Learning is...
active
state
Protagoras
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
4. Use women more as slaves
Thracians
descriptive
Athens
complete moral education
5. Rational structure of Christian thought
sauromatides
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
national government
dogmatic theory
6. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
preciseness
Kant and George Berkeley
innoculation method
7. Consisted of subjects
Naturalist aim of education
Laws
Quadrivium
ordinary language analysis
8. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Abraham Lincoln
analytic
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
casuity
9. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Epistemology
complete moral education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Leisure
10. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
Leisure
fundamental part of teaching
cognitive
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
11. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
Sparta
Essence
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
12. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
Plato
sole true end of education
rejected
controlled transaction
13. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
national government
ethics and aesthetics
ordinary language analysis
metaphysics
14. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
Plato and the arts
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
X Generation
15. Nature of any given thing
Essence
Aristotle
Sir Francis Bacon
atheistic wing of existentialism
16. General ideas about education and their logical implications
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
theoretical issues
Antidosis
casuity
17. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
reader-response theory
atheistic wing of existentialism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Stanley Fish
18. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Protestant Reformation
Aristotle
naturalism
transcendential idealism
19. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
complete moral education
empirical analytics
quadrivium
20. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Lyceum
Amish
liberal learning
21. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
ethics
multiculturalism
active
22. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Arabasis
ethics
empirical analytics
Dorian music
23. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Zeno
Sir Francis Bacon
Great defect in modern education
Strict neutrality
24. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
flute
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Xenophon
25. 1600s; get to truth through science
embrace them intellectually
modernity
experimentalist aesthetic view
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
26. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
Aristotle
complete moral education
Isocrates
27. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Laws
Plato and the arts
collective Christian mind
truth from narratives and story-telling
28. 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
Athens
goal of liberal education
quadrivium
Experimentalist values
29. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Criticism of existentialism
only adequate education
axiology
cognitive
30. Most famous multiculturalist project
idealist theory of education
cultural literacy
revelation
critique of great texts of western world
31. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Hellenica
philosophy of education
Stanley Fish
32. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Amish
leaner-centered approach
Middle Ages
33. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
idealist metaphysics
flute
Politics
rhetoric
34. 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
noetic powers
aesthetics
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Isocrates
35. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Leisure
existence precedes essence
philosophical analysis
tradition of liberal arts education
36. 'What is valuable?'
value neutrality
axiology
Integrated Education
hallmark of liberal arts education
37. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
casuity
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
38. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Athens
analytic
Xenophon
Tolkein approach
39. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
descriptive
leaner-centered approach
Thracians
Naturalism
40. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Plato
critique of great texts of western world
philosophy as a subject matter
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
41. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
preciseness
postmodernist aesthetics
Plato
42. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Neo-Platonism
pure secularism
analytic
difference between leisure and amusement
43. Socrates' ultimate goal
pragmatism
state
linguistic descriptions
virtue
44. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Platonic concept of education
theistic wing of existentialism
Plato and the arts
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
45. What is the building block of civilization?
Memorabilia
Experimentalist view of education
Family
existentialist aesthetics
46. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
rejected
synthetic
Naturalist aim of education
47. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
existentialist view of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Essence
Against the Sophists
48. What was created to protect academic freedom?
virtue
rhetoric
Tenure
Experimentalist values
49. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
idealist value theory
Monkey Trial
noetic powers
50. Kant's general form of moral law
transcendential idealism
Isocrates
controlled transaction
categorical imperative