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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
analytic
reader-response theory
Protagorean rationale for general education
hallmark of liberal arts education
2. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
Aristotle
revelation
philosophy
hubris
3. 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
active
idealist theory of education
Euthydemus
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
4. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
Aristotle
Essence
Abraham Joshua Heschel
5. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
up
ideal language analysis
division of controversial issues
6. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Tenure
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
normative
Protestant Reformation
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
Sophists
empirical analytics
responsibility theory
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
8. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
existentialist view of education
maturational theories
Dead White European Male
hubris
9. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
cognitive
Canon
philosophical analysis
10. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Experimentalist values
ordinary language analysis
local government
dialectic
11. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
subjective idealism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Aristotle
existentialism
12. 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
undergraduate schools
cultural literacy
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Isocrates
13. 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
Xenophon
Antidosis
paideia
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
14. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
pragmatism
philosophy as a subject matter
in the home
hallmark of liberal arts education
15. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Isocrates
preciseness
Socrates
X Generation
16. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
X Generation
quadrivium
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
existentialist aesthetics
17. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dorian music
practical issues
Integrated Education
Dead White European Male
18. World is permeated by divine essence
existentialist aesthetics
tradition of liberal arts education
Hindu Patheism
Tolkein approach
19. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
practical side (CDE pattern)
maturational theories
active
20. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
cultural literacy
Epicurus
metaphysics
21. 1600s; get to truth through science
Republic
existentialism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
modernity
22. 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
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
controlled transaction
preciseness
23. Aspect which makes something tangible
Thoreau
matter
Monkey Trial
Allegory of the Cave
24. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
state
synthetic
First Amendment activists
25. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
up
Experimentalist values
rhetoric
John Dewey
26. Quintessential educated medieval person
Criticism of existentialism
particularism
scholastic
goal of empiricism
27. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
confidence
embrace them intellectually
ages that Trivium should be used
naturalistic cosmotogies
28. General ideas about education and their logical implications
theoretical issues
mirror of society and critic of society
existentialism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
29. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Liberally educated person
general education
Athens
Politics
30. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
only adequate education
Tenure
31. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
xenophon
Plato
value neutrality
general education
32. Kant's general form of moral law
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
categorical imperative
Republic
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
33. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
John Dewey
local government
reader-response theory
postmodernist theory of education
34. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Theology
Epistemology
preciseness
Criticism of existentialism
35. 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
empirical analytics
Naturalist aim of education
analysis
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
36. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
socialization theories
Thomistic realism
reason for sending child to public school
arete
37. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Protagoras
casuity
Stanley Fish
Cosmic dualism
38. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
multiculturalism
hallmark of liberal arts education
postermodernist literary ideas
39. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Nicomachean Ethics
Naturalist aim of education
embrace them intellectually
xenophon
40. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
sauromatides
Athens
rhetoric
rejected
41. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
analytic philosophy
logic
42. 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)
theistic wing of existentialism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Leisure
existentialism
43. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
revelation
Trivium and Quadrivium
Cosmic dualism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
44. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Materialism
Isocrates
sauromatides
philosophy as a subject matter
45. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
axiology
First Amendment activists
Thoreau
experiential
46. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
normative
Protagorean rationale for general education
Aristotle
socialization theories
47. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
liberal learning
existentialism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
happiness
48. 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
analytic philosophy
scholastic
Sparta
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
49. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
Neil Postman
Lyceum
postmodernism
axiology
50. 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
empiricism
existence precedes essence
responsibility theory