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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
Against the Sophists
Xenophon
Neil Postman
analytic philosophy
2. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Stanley Fish
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
First Amendment activists
3. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Stanford University Students
hallmark of liberal arts education
Neil Postman
Isocrates
4. Learning is...
philosophical idealist
active
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Outmoded
5. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
synthetic
hairsplitting
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
confidence
6. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Experimentalist values
sole true end of education
Aristotle
reason for sending child to public school
7. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
metaphysics
philosophy
analytic philosophy
8. 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
dialectic
metaphysics
Sparta
Aristotle
9. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
only adequate education
flute
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
10. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
ethics
tradition of liberal arts education
actuality
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
11. 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
reason
Republic
self-knowledge
Abraham Joshua Heschel
12. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
hubris
innoculation method
Monkey Trial
13. 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
Liberally educated person
idealist metaphysics
ordinary language analysis
existentialism
14. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
embrace them intellectually
cognitive-stage theories
Monkey Trial
15. What medievals focused on
famous attack of medievals
revelation
Outmoded
dogmatic theory
16. Technology is not always a __________.
Platonic concept of education
Stanley Fish
Blessing
atheistic wing of existentialism
17. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Plato
idealist value theory
atheistic wing of existentialism
conceptual mapping
18. 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
reason
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
19. What is a 'DWEM'?
trivium
Dead White European Male
existence precedes essence
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
20. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
cultural literacy
Aristotle
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Criticism of existentialism
21. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
existentialism
Socrates
Stanley Fish
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
22. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
reason for sending child to public school
subjective idealism
dialectic
goal of empiricism
23. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Experimentalist view of education
Republic
idealist theory of education
existentialist aesthetics
24. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
vocational training
Plato and the arts
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Zeno
25. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
X Generation
preciseness
philosophy as a subject matter
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
26. One that shapes the whole person
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
only adequate education
particularism
hubris
27. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
a subject matter and an activity
collective Christian mind
famous attack of medievals
28. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Amish
postmodernist aesthetics
logic
in the home
29. Encourages individual choice
Dorian music
analytic
Protagoras
existentialism
30. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
dogmatic theory
innoculation method
existence precedes essence
sauromatides
31. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
theoretical issues
empirical analytics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
32. Concept of the beautiful
actuality
aesthetics
Thomistic realism
analytic philosophy
33. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
trivium
California and Texas
Theology
Republic
34. The 'love of wisdom'
philosophy
Stanford University Students
Thracians
Aristotle
35. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
collective Christian mind
Dorian music
metaphysics
analysis
36. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Protestant Reformation
Peterson
categorical imperative
Dead White European Male
37. Socrates' ultimate goal
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
ages that Trivium should be used
virtue
38. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
ethics
complete moral education
Amish
39. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
local government
experiential
Family
40. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Naturalist aim of education
state
liberation to truth
postmodernist theory of education
41. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
synthetic
reason for sending child to public school
pure secularism
linguistic descriptions
42. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
California and Texas
hallmark of liberal arts education
famous attack of medievals
43. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Plato's division of human decisions
scholastic
Individual Christian mind
44. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Peterson
logic
self-knowledge
45. Experimentalist students are to be both:
xenophon
mirror of society and critic of society
experiential
Latin
46. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
Outmoded
fundamental part of teaching
ethics and aesthetics
47. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
reason for sending child to public school
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
only adequate education
religious zealots
48. List of works that have always been studied
axiology
Canon
existentialism
categorical imperative
49. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
philosophy
Golden Mean and habit
leaner-centered approach
Sparta
50. It is a dead language
Panathenaicus
flute
Golden Mean and habit
criticism of latin