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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
active
responsibility theory
Politics
2. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Trivium and Quadrivium
logic
postermodernist literary ideas
3. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Middle Ages
Protagoras
Tolkein approach
4. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Stanley Fish
Great defect in modern education
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Plato
5. Quintessential educated medieval person
controlled transaction
Materialism
scholastic
Thracians
6. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
Amish
sole true end of education
Trivium and Quadrivium
7. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Protagoras
normative philosophy of education
Strict neutrality
8. Concept of the beautiful
theoretical issues
aesthetics
Integrated Education
postmodernist aesthetics
9. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Latin
Sparta
Sigmund Freud
Tenure
10. 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
descriptive
socratic method
Politics
theistic wing of existentialism
11. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
a subject matter and an activity
Trivium and Quadrivium
sole true end of education
12. 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
in the home
matter
Thomistic realism
Socrates
13. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Monkey Trial
xenophon
responsibility theory
leaner-centered approach
14. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
self-knowledge
Aristotle
particularism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
15. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
normative
cognitive-stage theories
synthetic
Laws
16. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
a subject matter and an activity
idealist metaphysics
sole true end of education
Isocrates
17. Technology is not always a __________.
arete
Blessing
idealist metaphysics
theoretical issues
18. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Quadrivium
Trivium and Quadrivium
existentialism
19. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
innoculation method
potentiality
criticism of latin
20. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
Canon
Stanford University Students
practical side (CDE pattern)
21. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
Blessing
idealist theory of education
reader-response theory
22. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
modernity
multiculturalism
First Amendment activists
existentialist aesthetics
23. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Thoreau
in the home
socialization theories
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
24. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Plato's division of human decisions
in the home
quadrivium
Essence
25. One that shapes the whole person
only adequate education
subjective idealism
potentiality
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
26. 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
active
flute
actuality
practical side (CDE pattern)
27. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
Protagoras
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Order of Trivium
Euthydemus
28. 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
Republic
Isocrates
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Isocrates
29. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Order of Trivium
noetic powers
30. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Modernity
Plato
responsibility theory
ethics
31. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Republic
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
only adequate education
metaphysics
32. List of works that have always been studied
Antidosis
Protagoras
Naturalist aim of education
Canon
33. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
theoretical issues
reader-response theory
revelation
worldview
34. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Athens and Sparta
Hellenica
transcendential idealism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
35. What is a 'DWEM'?
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Athens
rejected
Dead White European Male
36. 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
in the home
Athens
Jacques Derrida
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
37. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
Politics
happiness
Nicocles
religious zealots
38. 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
X Generation
Memorabilia
Laws
Neil Postman
39. Nature of any given thing
idealist value theory
Essence
Golden Mean and habit
liberation to truth
40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
national government
Latin
Thracians
41. Experimentalist students are to be both:
descriptive
mirror of society and critic of society
Euthydemus
Antidosis
42. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
philosophy as a subject matter
casuity
Sigmund Freud
actuality
43. 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
quadrivium
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existence precedes essence
44. Encourages individual choice
practical issues
existentialism
Monkey Trial
embrace them intellectually
45. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
Republic
state
linguistic descriptions
sauromatides
46. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
state
Modernity
Abraham Lincoln
normative
47. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
sauromatides
division of controversial issues
48. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Liberally educated person
Memorabilia
Justice and meritocracy
49. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Zeno
socialization theories
Outmoded
truth from narratives and story-telling
50. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
cultural literacy
John Dewey
Sparta
Postmodernity educational practice