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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Protagoras
Theology
postmodernist aesthetics
2. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
philosophy of education
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
religious zealots
a healthy Christian theism
3. No God
Sophists
Plato
Naturalism vs. Christianity
sole true end of education
4. Experience is reality; activity-based
Strict neutrality
reason
pragmatism
virtue
5. 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
pragmatism
modernity
reason for sending child to public school
difference between leisure and amusement
6. Use women more as slaves
postmodernist theory of education
Pluralism
Sir Francis Bacon
Thracians
7. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
experimentalist aesthetic view
confidence
Tolkein approach
transcendential idealism
8. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Leisure
multiculturalism
vocational training
sole true end of education
9. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
theoretical issues
arete
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
10. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Politics
Tenure
Laws
Aristotle
11. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Zeno
worldview
philosophical analysis
Sparta
12. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
hallmark of liberal arts education
Key elements of Greek education
normative philosophy of education
Hindu Patheism
13. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Antidosis
empiricism
arete
analytic philosophy
14. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
hubris
Materialism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
trivium
15. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
general education
complete moral education
Arabasis
16. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Isocrates
Thoreau
leaner-centered approach
form
17. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
postmodernist theory of education
Isocrates
arete
18. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Essence
empiricism
philosophy
Neil Postman
19. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
cultural literacy
Liberally educated person
Middle Ages
20. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Tolkein approach
tradition of liberal arts education
controlled transaction
Xenophon
21. Encourages individual choice
happiness
epitome of postmodern person
ages that Trivium should be used
existentialism
22. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Latin
Golden Mean and habit
fundamental part of teaching
dialectic
23. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Hindu Patheism
critique of great texts of western world
Dorian music
philosophy as a subject matter
24. 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
Euthydemus
division of controversial issues
normative philosophy of education
Athens
25. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
reason
idealist theory of education
subjective idealism
paideia
26. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
dialectic
philosophy as a subject matter
27. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
collective Christian mind
preciseness
division of controversial issues
transcendential idealism
28. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
philosophical idealist
Republic
liberal education and career training
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
29. What is a 'DWEM'?
Key elements of Greek education
difference between leisure and amusement
existentialism
Dead White European Male
30. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
cognitive
Individual Christian mind
tradition of liberal arts education
responsibility theory
31. 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
philosophy
Dead White European Male
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Republic
32. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
analytic philosophy
liberal education and career training
ordinary language analysis
Experimentalist view of education
33. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
metaphysics
Lyceum
pragmatism
Herodotus
34. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
analysis
Xenophon
metaphysics
subjective idealism
35. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
existentialism
First Amendment activists
Aristotle
Justice and meritocracy
36. 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)
First Amendment activists
Trivium and Quadrivium
modernity
37. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Epistemology
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Thoreau
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
38. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
philosophy of education
Aristotle
goal of empiricism
39. One that shapes the whole person
Jacques Derrida
Key elements of Greek education
analysis
only adequate education
40. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
Hellenica
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
41. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
xenophon
empirical analytics
Naturalism
existence precedes essence
42. Started naturalism
First Amendment activists
Sir Francis Bacon
Protestant Reformation
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
43. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
modernity
Leisure
Republic
existentialist view of education
44. List of works that have always been studied
Experimentalist aesthetics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Canon
empiricism
45. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Panathenaicus
Theology
Key elements of Greek education
Family
46. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Blessing
X Generation
normative philosophy of education
47. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
revelation
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
48. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
Hellenica
happiness
Kant and George Berkeley
49. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
responsibility theory
Xenophon
general education
scholastic
50. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Blessing
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Laws