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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
X Generation
Middle Ages
Integrated Education
Hellenica
2. 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
naturalistic cosmotogies
postmodernism
dogmatic theory
Trivium and Quadrivium
3. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Antidosis
critique of great texts of western world
Amish
4. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Hindu Patheism
liberal learning
Thoreau
Nicocles
5. 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
fundamental part of teaching
rejected
Socratic method
Panathenaicus
6. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Trivium and Quadrivium
socialization theories
Great defect in modern education
Plato's division of human decisions
7. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
truth from narratives and story-telling
experiential
Naturalist aim of education
controlled transaction
8. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
California and Texas
Aristotle
Panathenaicus
trivium
9. Children born from 1981-1999
Euthydemus
Isocrates
ages that Trivium should be used
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
10. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
value neutrality
Jacques Derrida
Plato
Outmoded
11. 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
Protagoras
Leisure
idealist metaphysics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
12. World is an emanation of God's own being
philosophy as a subject matter
Neo-Platonism
Quadrivium
philosophy of education
13. Portion of being
postmodernist aesthetics
reason for sending child to public school
Golden Mean and habit
actuality
14. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
rejected
scholastic
Isocrates
15. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
analytic
Protagorean rationale for general education
synthetic
idealist metaphysics
16. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
transcendential idealism
pure secularism
potentiality
17. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
epitome of postmodern person
hallmark of liberal arts education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
18. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Golden Mean and habit
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Cosmic dualism
John Dewey
19. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
xenophon
Stanley Fish
Athens
worldview
20. Two main philosophers of idealism
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Kant and George Berkeley
Politics
liberal education and career training
21. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
socratic method
subjective idealism
Socratic method
Individual Christian mind
22. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
religious zealots
ideal language analysis
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Athens
23. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
hubris
conceptual mapping
fundamental part of teaching
Protagoras
24. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
consumerism
naturalism
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
25. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Arabasis
Republic
reason for sending child to public school
critique of great texts of western world
26. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
division of controversial issues
First Amendment activists
Athens and Sparta
Jacques Derrida
27. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
up
a subject matter and an activity
idealist metaphysics
goal of liberal education
28. Theoretical issues and practical issues
practical side (CDE pattern)
Nicomachean Ethics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
division of controversial issues
29. Encourages individual choice
Experimentalist values
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Zeno
existentialism
30. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
existentialism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
philosophical idealist
31. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
form
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Liberally educated person
normative philosophy of education
32. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
postmodernist aesthetics
Tolkein approach
Plato
happiness
33. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
famous attack of medievals
subjective idealism
Sparta
theoretical issues
34. Started naturalism
Thracians
analytic philosophy
Sir Francis Bacon
Family
35. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Tolkein approach
arete
epitome of postmodern person
First Amendment activists
36. 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
famous attack of medievals
goal of liberal education
Plato
analytic philosophy
37. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Plato
Quadrivium
flute
difference between leisure and amusement
38. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Plato's division of human decisions
critique of great texts of western world
worldview
Integrated Education
39. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
dialectic
theistic wing of existentialism
normative philosophy of education
40. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
existentialist view of education
Theology
goal of empiricism
Naturalism
41. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Monkey Trial
Isocrates
rhetoric
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
42. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Thracians
axiology
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
43. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
a subject matter and an activity
socratic method
categorical imperative
Naturalism vs. Christianity
44. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
theoretical issues
Trivium and Quadrivium
Politics
45. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
metaphysics
Justice and meritocracy
Quadrivium
logic
46. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
form
X Generation
Socrates
Leisure
47. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
general education
ideal language analysis
difference between leisure and amusement
48. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
Isocrates
X Generation
dialectic
49. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
Plato and the arts
existentialist aesthetics
only adequate education
50. A specific body of info every American should know
Experimentalist values
liberal education and career training
responsibility theory
cultural literacy