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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Modernity
form
ordinary language analysis
socialization theories
2. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Sigmund Freud
Postmodernity educational practice
Platonic concept of education
Aristotle
3. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
descriptive
goal of liberal education
hubris
4. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
leaner-centered approach
Thracians
Hellenica
multiculturalism
5. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
a subject matter and an activity
categorical imperative
Jacques Derrida
6. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
socratic method
Thoreau
synthetic
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
7. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Plato
Athens and Sparta
ages that Trivium should be used
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
8. 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;
conceptual mapping
Republic
postmodernism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
9. No God
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Integrated Education
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Naturalism vs. Christianity
10. 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
Plato
Individual Christian mind
confidence
Protagoras
11. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Thomistic realism
experiential
experimentalist aesthetic view
12. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
atheistic wing of existentialism
Experimentalist view of education
famous attack of medievals
Hindu Patheism
13. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
liberal learning
state
Monkey Trial
First Amendment activists
14. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
ethics
Justice and meritocracy
theoretical issues
Nicocles
15. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Tenure
virtue
Hellenica
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
16. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Golden Mean and habit
responsibility theory
happiness
17. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Protagorean rationale for general education
famous attack of medievals
mirror of society and critic of society
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
18. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
mirror of society and critic of society
Herodotus
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
transcendential idealism
19. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
experimentalist aesthetic view
Protagorean rationale for general education
postmodernist aesthetics
analytic
20. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
division of controversial issues
empirical analytics
Sigmund Freud
21. 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)
metaphysics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
existentialism
socialization theories
22. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
ordinary language analysis
metaphysics
Kant and George Berkeley
Leisure
23. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
logic
synthetic
24. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Integrated Education
Platonic concept of education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
rhetoric
25. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
in the home
John Dewey
normative
postmodernist aesthetics
26. 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
Experimentalist values
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Nicomachean Ethics
Theology
27. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Protagoras
revelation
existentialist view of education
subjective idealism
28. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Jacques Derrida
John Dewey
philosophical analysis
Zeno
29. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
hairsplitting
philosophy
naturalistic cosmotogies
pragmatism
30. Good and evil in constant battle
Justice and meritocracy
multiculturalism
rhetoric
Cosmic dualism
31. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
embrace them intellectually
Experimentalist values
32. 1600s; get to truth through science
consumerism
Nicocles
form
modernity
33. Experimentalist students are to be both:
organized knowledge
Laws
mirror of society and critic of society
state
34. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Socrates
Monkey Trial
Isocrates
postmodernist aesthetics
35. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Aristotle
Epistemology
existentialist view of education
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
36. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
Experimentalist values
synthetic
existentialist view of education
37. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
dogmatic theory
Sparta
analysis
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
38. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
Plato and the arts
Epistemology
logic
39. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Sigmund Freud
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
self-knowledge
paideia
40. 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
quadrivium
aesthetics
Against the Sophists
Materialism
41. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Neil Postman
philosophical analysis
experiential
innoculation method
42. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
Peterson
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
socialization theories
43. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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44. 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
trivium
existentialism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
liberal education and career training
45. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
goal of liberal education
idealist metaphysics
form
Memorabilia
46. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Justice and meritocracy
postmodernism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
socratic method
47. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
complete moral education
general education
organized knowledge
ordinary language analysis
48. One that shapes the whole person
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
existentialism
only adequate education
collective Christian mind
49. 'Man is the measure of all things'
existentialist aesthetics
analytic
Republic
Protagoras
50. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
multiculturalism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
scholastic
Memorabilia