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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Stress self-expression
maturational theories
Protestant Reformation
paideia
goal of liberal education
2. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
complete moral education
Panathenaicus
Abraham Lincoln
Xenophon
3. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
consumerism
Hindu Patheism
Platonic concept of education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
4. 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
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
cognitive-stage theories
Athens
Laws
5. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Isocrates
Plato
state
6. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
Key elements of Greek education
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
scholastic
7. Started naturalism
leaner-centered approach
Laws
Sir Francis Bacon
Plato and the arts
8. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
worldview
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Justice and meritocracy
9. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Republic
Protagoras
embrace them intellectually
Memorabilia
10. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Theology
Aristotle
Republic
Order of Trivium
11. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Quadrivium
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
existentialist view of education
value neutrality
12. Socrates' ultimate goal
empirical analytics
Platonic concept of education
virtue
consumerism
13. 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;
postmodernism
Protestant Reformation
complete moral education
reason for sending child to public school
14. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Republic
Stanford University Students
pure secularism
ages that Trivium should be used
15. 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
pragmatism
Against the Sophists
matter
metaphysics
16. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
liberal learning
cognitive
Leisure
17. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
Euthydemus
goal of liberal education
pragmatism
philosophical idealist
18. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
preciseness
responsibility theory
Hellenica
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
19. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Abraham Lincoln
aesthetics
Aristotle
20. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Quadrivium
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
normative philosophy of education
postmodernity
21. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
transcendential idealism
philosophical idealist
sole true end of education
22. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Isocrates
Experimentalist values
theoretical issues
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
23. 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
Abraham Lincoln
critique of great texts of western world
trivium
Nicocles
24. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
theistic wing of existentialism
ethics
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Nicomachean Ethics
25. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Postmodernity educational practice
famous attack of medievals
division of controversial issues
26. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Hindu Patheism
Jacques Derrida
synthetic
undergraduate schools
27. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Leisure
Athens
local government
general education
28. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
reason
Tenure
cognitive-stage theories
responsibility theory
29. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
xenophon
X Generation
state
30. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
normative
Nicomachean Ethics
religious zealots
Arabasis
31. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
hubris
empirical analytics
Aristotle
32. 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
Epistemology
postmodernist theory of education
noetic powers
pragmatism
33. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
John Dewey
conceptual mapping
cultural literacy
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
34. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
complete moral education
paideia
reader-response theory
hallmark of liberal arts education
35. 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
existentialism
consumerism
descriptive
36. What Greeks mostly focused on
general education
reason
philosophy as a subject matter
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
37. 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
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
vocational training
Trivium and Quadrivium
X Generation
38. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
existentialist aesthetics
practical side (CDE pattern)
39. What medievals focused on
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
revelation
Aristotle
particularism
40. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Athens
Naturalism
hubris
41. 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
Hellenica
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
ages that Trivium should be used
Republic
42. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Amish
Order of Trivium
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
reader-response theory
43. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Nicocles
axiology
Protestant Reformation
experimentalist aesthetic view
44. World is an emanation of God's own being
Monkey Trial
Neo-Platonism
happiness
Family
45. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
self-knowledge
postmodernist aesthetics
leaner-centered approach
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
46. Experimentalist students are to be both:
California and Texas
mirror of society and critic of society
aesthetics
Trivium and Quadrivium
47. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
form
California and Texas
flute
48. Portion of being
Naturalist aim of education
actuality
criticism of latin
empirical analytics
49. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Allegory of the Cave
logic
metaphysics
Socrates
50. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
Athens
Neo-Platonism
Republic