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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Plato
Xenophon
Athens and Sparta
flute
2. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Abraham Lincoln
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Great defect in modern education
3. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Protagoras
transcendential idealism
Canon
analysis
4. What is a 'DWEM'?
Republic
Dead White European Male
Family
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
5. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Plato and the arts
Neo-Platonism
ideal language analysis
Latin
6. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
casuity
Family
normative
pragmatism
7. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
liberal learning
existentialist aesthetics
value neutrality
Neo-Platonism
8. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
happiness
undergraduate schools
Protagoras
hallmark of liberal arts education
9. Knowledge most worth having
socialization theories
self-knowledge
cognitive-stage theories
Naturalism vs. Christianity
10. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
Aristotle
mirror of society and critic of society
Quadrivium
11. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
truth from narratives and story-telling
philosophical analysis
Epicurus
12. Kant's general form of moral law
difference between leisure and amusement
categorical imperative
Plato and the arts
axiology
13. 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
Arabasis
leaner-centered approach
Republic
Athens
14. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
paideia
Theology
liberal education and career training
Socratic method
15. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Aristotle
synthetic
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
16. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
Euthydemus
rejected
First Amendment activists
17. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Socrates
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
responsibility theory
idealist metaphysics
18. Consisted of subjects
Sophists
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
trivium
Quadrivium
19. 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
Experimentalist values
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
maturational theories
metaphysics
20. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
cognitive
Theology
quadrivium
Lyceum
21. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
epitome of postmodern person
Antidosis
Experimentalist aesthetics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
22. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Neil Postman
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
sole true end of education
modernity
23. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Experimentalist values
ordinary language analysis
Lyceum
ethics
24. Portion of being
Athens and Sparta
Epistemology
analytic
actuality
25. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
sauromatides
dogmatic theory
Amish
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
26. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Herodotus
goal of empiricism
subjective idealism
Isocrates
27. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
embrace them intellectually
Amish
Kant and George Berkeley
philosophy
28. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Kant and George Berkeley
categorical imperative
Outmoded
Laws
29. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
Monkey Trial
Antidosis
fundamental part of teaching
30. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Republic
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Tolkein approach
existentialist view of education
31. Quintessential educated medieval person
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
goal of empiricism
existentialism
scholastic
32. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
experimentalist aesthetic view
hairsplitting
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Great defect in modern education
33. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
maturational theories
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
goal of liberal education
Experimentalist values
34. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
Postmodernity educational practice
controlled transaction
practical side (CDE pattern)
35. 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
Stanley Fish
organized knowledge
dogmatic theory
36. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
logic
Latin
Republic
37. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Athens and Sparta
philosophical analysis
empirical analytics
socialization theories
38. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
sauromatides
John Dewey
Order of Trivium
logic
39. World is an emanation of God's own being
philosophy
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Neo-Platonism
40. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
undergraduate schools
Zeno
national government
Canon
41. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
metaphysics
analysis
socialization theories
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
42. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
ordinary language analysis
criticism of latin
Epistemology
Abraham Joshua Heschel
43. 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
Materialism
potentiality
collective Christian mind
Against the Sophists
44. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
practical issues
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
actuality
Antidosis
45. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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46. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Thomistic realism
postmodernist aesthetics
local government
analytic philosophy
47. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
sole true end of education
Zeno
48. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
postmodernism
Plato
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
49. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Thomistic realism
Nicocles
Athens
50. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Blessing
philosophical idealist
casuity
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things