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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Stanford University Students
Sparta
experiential
difference between leisure and amusement
2. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
in the home
local government
revelation
Naturalism vs. Christianity
3. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Against the Sophists
Protagoras
sole true end of education
philosophy
4. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy as a subject matter
postmodernist aesthetics
5. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Antidosis
theistic wing of existentialism
Socrates
6. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Pluralism
leaner-centered approach
transcendential idealism
pure secularism
7. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
theoretical issues
innoculation method
Politics
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
8. Started naturalism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
difference between leisure and amusement
Sir Francis Bacon
hallmark of liberal arts education
9. Quintessential educated medieval person
Dorian music
philosophy
Plato and the arts
scholastic
10. 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
Xenophon
Herodotus
Golden Mean and habit
philosophical analysis
11. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Quadrivium
metaphysics
Peterson
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
12. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
ideal language analysis
subjective idealism
Great defect in modern education
13. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
pure secularism
postmodernism
organized knowledge
14. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
transcendential idealism
Stanley Fish
Against the Sophists
potentiality
15. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Justice and meritocracy
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
confidence
16. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
dogmatic theory
Socrates
local government
postermodernist literary ideas
17. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
self-knowledge
particularism
virtue
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
18. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
cognitive-stage theories
analysis
national government
Postmodernity educational practice
19. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
Postmodernity educational practice
Aristotle
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
20. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
criticism of latin
Hellenica
postmodernist theory of education
21. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
idealist metaphysics
paideia
Protagoras
22. 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
active
xenophon
Sparta
23. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
xenophon
philosophical idealist
philosophy of education
24. 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
Protagorean rationale for general education
Epistemology
existentialism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
25. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
sauromatides
practical side (CDE pattern)
Latin
noetic powers
26. 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
Protestant Reformation
Tenure
Naturalist aim of education
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
27. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
existentialism
postermodernist literary ideas
organized knowledge
Canon
28. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
postmodernist theory of education
Platonic concept of education
tradition of liberal arts education
in the home
29. 'What is valuable?'
Canon
Plato's division of human decisions
axiology
Herodotus
30. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
Naturalism vs. Christianity
difference between leisure and amusement
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
31. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
liberal education and career training
self-knowledge
Plato and the arts
Nicomachean Ethics
32. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
practical issues
metaphysics
Stanley Fish
33. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
postmodernist aesthetics
particularism
liberal learning
34. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Peterson
pragmatism
Sophists
Politics
35. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Latin
Trivium and Quadrivium
general education
undergraduate schools
36. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
religious zealots
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
reason
37. Stress self-expression
maturational theories
Politics
particularism
Republic
38. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Sophists
First Amendment activists
undergraduate schools
fundamental part of teaching
39. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
idealist value theory
tradition of liberal arts education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Protagorean rationale for general education
40. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Stanford University Students
Liberally educated person
liberal education and career training
Aristotle
41. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
critique of great texts of western world
actuality
reader-response theory
Blessing
42. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Athens
idealist theory of education
existence precedes essence
43. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
worldview
Neil Postman
Thomistic realism
44. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Outmoded
Allegory of the Cave
Antidosis
consumerism
45. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
a healthy Christian theism
general education
Stanford University Students
46. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Neo-Platonism
Protagoras
Modernity
Quadrivium
47. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
philosophical analysis
happiness
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
conceptual mapping
48. 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
Protestant Reformation
Laws
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
49. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Republic
organized knowledge
paideia
particularism
50. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
existence precedes essence
general education
ideal language analysis
Experimentalist view of education