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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
particularism
philosophical idealist
Integrated Education
Athens
2. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
naturalistic cosmotogies
paideia
organized knowledge
quadrivium
3. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
Liberally educated person
cognitive
theistic wing of existentialism
multiculturalism
4. 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
Monkey Trial
metaphysics
existentialist view of education
Latin
5. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Plato and the arts
ideal language analysis
philosophy of education
potentiality
6. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
existentialism
naturalistic cosmotogies
Modernity
7. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Sophists
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
noetic powers
normative philosophy of education
8. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Thomistic realism
metaphysics
9. Learning is...
active
ethics
liberal learning
particularism
10. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
hubris
trivium
atheistic wing of existentialism
Epicurus
11. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
actuality
theistic wing of existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Pluralism
12. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
Allegory of the Cave
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
experiential
13. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
noetic powers
innoculation method
tradition of liberal arts education
Zeno
14. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Stanford University Students
descriptive
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
worldview
15. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
ethics and aesthetics
Stanley Fish
Socrates
Golden Mean and habit
16. List of works that have always been studied
noetic powers
Canon
Kant and George Berkeley
pragmatism
17. 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
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
experimentalist aesthetic view
ordinary language analysis
18. Academic freedom does not mean _______
in the home
Strict neutrality
value neutrality
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
19. What is a 'DWEM'?
tradition of liberal arts education
Modernity
Dead White European Male
Epicurus
20. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
state
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Order of Trivium
21. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
pragmatism
X Generation
Plato
Hellenica
22. 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
analytic philosophy
analytic
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Tolkein approach
23. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
casuity
atheistic wing of existentialism
practical issues
arete
24. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
liberal education and career training
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
25. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
logic
California and Texas
Laws
hubris
26. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pragmatism
pure secularism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Thracians
27. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
innoculation method
Outmoded
Isocrates
postermodernist literary ideas
28. Rational structure of Christian thought
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
dogmatic theory
potentiality
Materialism
29. 1600s; get to truth through science
a subject matter and an activity
vocational training
modernity
flute
30. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
metaphysics
reader-response theory
casuity
Experimentalist values
31. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Isocrates
general education
Euthydemus
experimentalist aesthetic view
32. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
empirical analytics
Liberally educated person
Antidosis
33. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Sigmund Freud
xenophon
Politics
Stanford University Students
34. Most famous multiculturalist project
Neil Postman
critique of great texts of western world
criticism of latin
liberal learning
35. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
axiology
Integrated Education
division of controversial issues
36. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Experimentalist aesthetics
Plato's division of human decisions
Isocrates
Experimentalist view of education
37. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
Thracians
Athens
Sophists
38. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
ideal language analysis
liberation to truth
actuality
reader-response theory
39. 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
Laws
Golden Mean and habit
scholastic
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
40. World is an emanation of God's own being
epitome of postmodern person
Neo-Platonism
Dorian music
modernity
41. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Aristotle
socialization theories
normative
preciseness
42. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
idealist metaphysics
truth from narratives and story-telling
analysis
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
43. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Golden Mean and habit
hallmark of liberal arts education
self-knowledge
Epistemology
44. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Golden Mean and habit
Naturalism
Quadrivium
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
45. Children born from 1981-1999
Golden Mean and habit
Thomistic realism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existentialism
46. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
liberal education and career training
trivium
particularism
Isocrates
47. A specific body of info every American should know
Arabasis
Athens
cultural literacy
tradition of liberal arts education
48. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
Sophists
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
controlled transaction
hairsplitting
49. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Dorian music
Essence
arete
California and Texas
50. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Euthydemus
Plato
axiology
sole true end of education
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