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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
Republic
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Cosmic dualism
2. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Euthydemus
existentialist view of education
Experimentalist aesthetics
Socratic method
3. No God
goal of empiricism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Latin
a healthy Christian theism
4. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
metaphysics
embrace them intellectually
hairsplitting
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
5. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
responsibility theory
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
truth from narratives and story-telling
innoculation method
6. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
goal of empiricism
liberal learning
Lyceum
X Generation
7. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
goal of liberal education
Abraham Lincoln
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
8. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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9. Father of History
empiricism
Antidosis
hubris
Herodotus
10. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Leisure
Peterson
famous attack of medievals
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11. 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
Laws
maturational theories
hubris
complete moral education
12. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
preciseness
Trivium and Quadrivium
philosophy as a subject matter
form
13. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
metaphysics
Canon
ages that Trivium should be used
goal of liberal education
14. What Greeks mostly focused on
a subject matter and an activity
active
reason
metaphysics
15. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
tradition of liberal arts education
national government
theistic wing of existentialism
16. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Integrated Education
rejected
cultural literacy
existentialist view of education
17. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Against the Sophists
hallmark of liberal arts education
transcendential idealism
active
18. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
worldview
naturalistic cosmotogies
happiness
19. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Aristotle
Criticism of existentialism
Thoreau
20. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
up
a subject matter and an activity
ethics and aesthetics
21. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
organized knowledge
Naturalist aim of education
philosophy
22. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
general education
national government
vocational training
23. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
reader-response theory
particularism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
naturalistic cosmotogies
24. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
hallmark of liberal arts education
worldview
existentialism
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
25. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
scholastic
Plato
noetic powers
Memorabilia
26. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
revelation
categorical imperative
analytic
dialectic
27. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Postmodernity educational practice
idealist theory of education
analytic
Neo-Platonism
28. 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
socialization theories
confidence
Arabasis
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
29. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
socialization theories
pragmatism
Republic
30. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
maturational theories
Kant and George Berkeley
tradition of liberal arts education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
31. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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32. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Arabasis
Essence
Allegory of the Cave
33. 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
self-knowledge
Against the Sophists
Thoreau
postmodernist theory of education
34. World is permeated by divine essence
Platonic concept of education
liberal education and career training
Materialism
Hindu Patheism
35. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
pure secularism
division of controversial issues
Epicurus
36. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
religious zealots
pragmatism
Naturalist aim of education
Sigmund Freud
37. 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
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
rejected
Trivium and Quadrivium
embrace them intellectually
38. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
analytic
preciseness
California and Texas
39. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
hubris
Protagoras
Order of Trivium
Arabasis
40. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Middle Ages
Sophists
local government
Abraham Joshua Heschel
41. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Cosmic dualism
arete
Politics
national government
42. 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
Xenophon
analytic philosophy
Postmodernity educational practice
Sigmund Freud
43. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Postmodernity educational practice
Aristotle
Neo-Platonism
cognitive
44. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Justice and meritocracy
Epistemology
reader-response theory
Against the Sophists
45. 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
Kant and George Berkeley
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Laws
46. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Postmodernity educational practice
Monkey Trial
ethics
47. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Experimentalist aesthetics
collective Christian mind
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
general education
48. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Protagoras
potentiality
Criticism of existentialism
Euthydemus
49. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
general education
ideal language analysis
practical side (CDE pattern)
50. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Protestant Reformation
famous attack of medievals
cognitive-stage theories
Isocrates