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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
California and Texas
Leisure
Sparta
Protagoras
2. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
idealist metaphysics
hubris
experiential
Thracians
3. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Experimentalist values
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
metaphysics
4. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
responsibility theory
Plato and the arts
existence precedes essence
state
5. 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
Liberally educated person
empirical analytics
casuity
analytic philosophy
6. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
reader-response theory
Nicocles
7. World is permeated by divine essence
California and Texas
empiricism
sole true end of education
Hindu Patheism
8. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
philosophical idealist
sauromatides
innoculation method
casuity
9. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
hubris
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Lyceum
Modernity
10. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
axiology
Integrated Education
truth from narratives and story-telling
11. Father of History
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
a healthy Christian theism
postmodernism
Herodotus
12. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Euthydemus
Epistemology
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophy
13. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Integrated Education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
pure secularism
theoretical issues
14. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
reader-response theory
Neil Postman
noetic powers
existence precedes essence
15. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
philosophy
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Lyceum
critique of great texts of western world
16. Two main philosophers of idealism
Panathenaicus
tradition of liberal arts education
dogmatic theory
Kant and George Berkeley
17. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
flute
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
18. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
atheistic wing of existentialism
X Generation
matter
form
19. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Antidosis
philosophical analysis
controlled transaction
Sigmund Freud
20. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Republic
epitome of postmodern person
reason
national government
21. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Theology
Stanley Fish
Athens and Sparta
existentialism
22. 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
hubris
Aristotle
Stanley Fish
23. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
mirror of society and critic of society
liberal education and career training
pure secularism
descriptive
24. Experimentalist students are to be both:
subjective idealism
consumerism
existentialism
mirror of society and critic of society
25. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
normative philosophy of education
metaphysics
Platonic concept of education
idealist value theory
26. No God
practical issues
Tolkein approach
existentialism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
27. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
X Generation
analysis
Criticism of existentialism
general education
28. Technology is not always a __________.
Blessing
undergraduate schools
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Socrates
29. What medievals focused on
California and Texas
Postmodernity educational practice
revelation
consumerism
30. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
linguistic descriptions
philosophical idealist
general education
Republic
31. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Jacques Derrida
truth from narratives and story-telling
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
actuality
32. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
up
Socratic method
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Great defect in modern education
33. How was ancient Greece divided?
Athens
reader-response theory
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Amish
34. 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)
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existentialism
pragmatism
Integrated Education
35. A specific body of info every American should know
Arabasis
liberal learning
analytic
cultural literacy
36. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Postmodernity educational practice
tradition of liberal arts education
idealist theory of education
liberation to truth
37. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
worldview
Latin
undergraduate schools
organized knowledge
38. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
Isocrates
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
responsibility theory
39. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Aristotle
ideal language analysis
modernity
Stanford University Students
40. To teach men how to learn for themselves
multiculturalism
sole true end of education
responsibility theory
Aristotle
41. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
actuality
Allegory of the Cave
Against the Sophists
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
42. The 'love of wisdom'
Nicomachean Ethics
Plato
philosophy
Herodotus
43. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Tolkein approach
division of controversial issues
Postmodernity educational practice
revelation
44. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
trivium
revelation
Latin
naturalism
45. All knowledge is derived from the senses
synthetic
idealist theory of education
empiricism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
46. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
Laws
sole true end of education
transcendential idealism
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
liberal education and career training
Liberally educated person
analytic philosophy
48. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Tenure
Republic
casuity
49. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Naturalism vs. Christianity
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Athens and Sparta
Individual Christian mind
50. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
conceptual mapping
a subject matter and an activity
Epicurus
general education