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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Herodotus
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Strict neutrality
2. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Hindu Patheism
postmodernist theory of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
3. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
paideia
conceptual mapping
criticism of latin
4. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
noetic powers
Blessing
5. Philosophy is both...?
socratic method
a subject matter and an activity
Abraham Lincoln
Quadrivium
6. 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
logic
First Amendment activists
Sir Francis Bacon
Golden Mean and habit
7. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
famous attack of medievals
Sophists
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
8. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
leaner-centered approach
X Generation
Trivium and Quadrivium
noetic powers
9. 'What is valuable?'
Epicurus
axiology
Abraham Joshua Heschel
local government
10. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Tenure
Monkey Trial
socratic method
responsibility theory
11. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
Republic
up
general education
12. 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
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Thoreau
goal of liberal education
13. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
philosophy as a subject matter
Postmodernity educational practice
conceptual mapping
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
14. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
active
Materialism
Cosmic dualism
socratic method
15. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
existentialism
Outmoded
Xenophon
goal of empiricism
16. Stress self-expression
Republic
maturational theories
local government
transcendential idealism
17. 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
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Liberally educated person
active
famous attack of medievals
18. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
national government
Socratic method
axiology
experiential
19. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
philosophy of education
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
conceptual mapping
20. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
up
responsibility theory
Athens and Sparta
controlled transaction
21. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
pragmatism
Stanley Fish
experiential
22. Two main philosophers of idealism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Epistemology
Kant and George Berkeley
difference between leisure and amusement
23. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Naturalist aim of education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
hallmark of liberal arts education
Middle Ages
24. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
sole true end of education
goal of liberal education
X Generation
Republic
25. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
theistic wing of existentialism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
empiricism
26. Categories of philosophy as an activity
sole true end of education
Aristotle
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
27. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Hellenica
mirror of society and critic of society
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
X Generation
28. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
leaner-centered approach
Family
responsibility theory
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
29. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
local government
Plato
liberation to truth
particularism
30. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
analytic
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
critique of great texts of western world
organized knowledge
31. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
cognitive-stage theories
Dead White European Male
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Nicocles
32. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
reader-response theory
John Dewey
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
33. 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
local government
Blessing
ordinary language analysis
Thracians
34. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
categorical imperative
Strict neutrality
Monkey Trial
logic
35. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Stanford University Students
existence precedes essence
Antidosis
Politics
36. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
liberal learning
ethics and aesthetics
experiential
Trivium and Quadrivium
37. Encourages individual choice
subjective idealism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Protagoras
existentialism
38. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Sparta
39. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
goal of liberal education
worldview
Athens and Sparta
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Memorabilia
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
pragmatism
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
41. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
xenophon
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
collective Christian mind
difference between leisure and amusement
42. 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
a healthy Christian theism
Essence
postermodernist literary ideas
43. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
particularism
normative
a healthy Christian theism
44. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
state
Abraham Lincoln
Criticism of existentialism
45. Kant's general form of moral law
goal of empiricism
normative philosophy of education
experiential
categorical imperative
46. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
philosophy as a subject matter
Isocrates
idealist value theory
Leisure
47. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
postmodernity
Republic
Latin
48. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
theistic wing of existentialism
Tolkein approach
Socratic method
Experimentalist values
49. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
pragmatism
Criticism of existentialism
criticism of latin
preciseness
50. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Isocrates
Naturalism vs. Christianity
naturalism
dogmatic theory