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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. List of works that have always been studied
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
cognitive-stage theories
Pluralism
Canon
2. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
a subject matter and an activity
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Isocrates
3. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
trivium
Aristotle
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
4. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
hallmark of liberal arts education
a healthy Christian theism
theoretical issues
practical side (CDE pattern)
5. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
axiology
reason for sending child to public school
Experimentalist aesthetics
Theology
6. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
existentialism
arete
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Platonic concept of education
7. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
atheistic wing of existentialism
normative philosophy of education
practical issues
Middle Ages
8. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
national government
practical issues
vocational training
9. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
California and Texas
preciseness
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
10. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
theoretical issues
ordinary language analysis
hairsplitting
11. Most famous multiculturalist project
critique of great texts of western world
postmodernism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
epitome of postmodern person
12. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Blessing
rhetoric
sole true end of education
Against the Sophists
13. 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
logic
leaner-centered approach
Trivium and Quadrivium
Republic
14. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Athens
Cosmic dualism
postmodernism
philosophy of education
15. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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16. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Dorian music
naturalism
Integrated Education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
17. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
existentialist view of education
Quadrivium
cognitive-stage theories
state
18. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
transcendential idealism
Protagorean rationale for general education
theoretical issues
Epicurus
19. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
Memorabilia
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Arabasis
20. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
truth from narratives and story-telling
Abraham Joshua Heschel
modernity
21. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
a subject matter and an activity
Socrates
Leisure
Memorabilia
22. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
division of controversial issues
value neutrality
Strict neutrality
Xenophon
23. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
conceptual mapping
socratic method
a subject matter and an activity
descriptive
24. Use women more as slaves
logic
existence precedes essence
a subject matter and an activity
Thracians
25. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
cognitive
undergraduate schools
embrace them intellectually
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
26. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
truth from narratives and story-telling
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
trivium
Republic
27. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
value neutrality
trivium
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
multiculturalism
28. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
postmodernity
Nicomachean Ethics
Middle Ages
29. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
ordinary language analysis
analytic philosophy
philosophy as a subject matter
Aristotle
30. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Thracians
general education
socratic method
Abraham Lincoln
31. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
theistic wing of existentialism
Latin
Essence
32. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
responsibility theory
Criticism of existentialism
philosophical analysis
Laws
33. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Sparta
Materialism
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
mirror of society and critic of society
34. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Euthydemus
subjective idealism
Amish
First Amendment activists
35. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Amish
epitome of postmodern person
Plato
Great defect in modern education
36. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Plato
Blessing
form
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
37. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
general education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Liberally educated person
38. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
rejected
metaphysics
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
39. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Herodotus
Blessing
Protestant Reformation
Naturalist aim of education
40. 1600s; get to truth through science
reason
Integrated Education
modernity
tradition of liberal arts education
41. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
in the home
Isocrates
Nicocles
maturational theories
42. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
responsibility theory
metaphysics
noetic powers
43. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
Pluralism
paideia
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
44. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
Arabasis
innoculation method
Sparta
Hellenica
45. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Tolkein approach
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
existentialist aesthetics
Cosmic dualism
46. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Isocrates
organized knowledge
Platonic concept of education
Athens
47. Categories of philosophy as an activity
goal of empiricism
pure secularism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
cognitive
48. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
critique of great texts of western world
existentialism
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
philosophical idealist
49. 'What is good?'
hallmark of liberal arts education
ethics
Canon
Pluralism
50. It is a dead language
Liberally educated person
theoretical issues
criticism of latin
postmodernist theory of education