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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
postmodernist theory of education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Republic
rejected
2. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Dorian music
Outmoded
liberal learning
tradition of liberal arts education
3. 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
religious zealots
existentialism
Trivium and Quadrivium
Lyceum
4. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
a healthy Christian theism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
philosophy as a subject matter
Against the Sophists
5. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
only adequate education
Great defect in modern education
pragmatism
6. Learning is...
experimentalist aesthetic view
worldview
analytic
active
7. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
in the home
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
actuality
8. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
ethics and aesthetics
rhetoric
difference between leisure and amusement
9. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
pure secularism
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
consumerism
10. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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11. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
experimentalist aesthetic view
maturational theories
Quadrivium
Antidosis
12. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
Republic
Experimentalist aesthetics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
13. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
division of controversial issues
Canon
linguistic descriptions
14. 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
Jacques Derrida
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
state
15. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
categorical imperative
existentialism
Laws
Memorabilia
16. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Criticism of existentialism
Dead White European Male
Hellenica
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
17. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
philosophy of education
metaphysics
philosophy
18. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
general education
arete
Theology
Panathenaicus
19. Knowledge most worth having
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
self-knowledge
X Generation
practical side (CDE pattern)
20. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
philosophy
existence precedes essence
Abraham Lincoln
21. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
analysis
First Amendment activists
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
22. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Epistemology
ideal language analysis
reason for sending child to public school
sole true end of education
23. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
multiculturalism
X Generation
local government
24. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
analytic philosophy
cognitive
only adequate education
25. 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
particularism
philosophy
Against the Sophists
actuality
26. Technology is not always a __________.
Family
dogmatic theory
Tenure
Blessing
27. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
hallmark of liberal arts education
only adequate education
Aristotle
Isocrates
28. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
philosophical analysis
postmodernism
Aristotle
Isocrates
29. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
self-knowledge
tradition of liberal arts education
Athens
30. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Politics
Naturalist aim of education
Thracians
31. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
self-knowledge
Laws
Theology
Aristotle
32. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Sophists
division of controversial issues
active
Nicomachean Ethics
33. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
potentiality
Isocrates
Cosmic dualism
34. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
paideia
sauromatides
Nicocles
Outmoded
35. Most famous multiculturalist project
Thoreau
critique of great texts of western world
theistic wing of existentialism
Neo-Platonism
36. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
atheistic wing of existentialism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
hubris
analysis
37. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Isocrates
cultural literacy
sole true end of education
existence precedes essence
38. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Hellenica
philosophy as a subject matter
reader-response theory
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
39. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
form
existentialism
Memorabilia
existentialist view of education
40. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Athens and Sparta
idealist value theory
Thomistic realism
Experimentalist view of education
41. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Neil Postman
flute
matter
Monkey Trial
42. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
arete
flute
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
43. Portion of being
actuality
a healthy Christian theism
cognitive
ideal language analysis
44. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
hairsplitting
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
particularism
local government
45. Children born from 1981-1999
modernity
idealist value theory
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Key elements of Greek education
46. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
sauromatides
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
rhetoric
Criticism of existentialism
47. 'Man is the measure of all things'
virtue
existentialist view of education
Protagoras
a subject matter and an activity
48. Music should be studied with a view to what?
postmodernist aesthetics
Protagoras
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Theology
49. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Politics
ordinary language analysis
50. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Order of Trivium
normative
theoretical issues
Monkey Trial