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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
Xenophon
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
aesthetics
2. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
dialectic
responsibility theory
up
noetic powers
3. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
embrace them intellectually
Zeno
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
4. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
Individual Christian mind
only adequate education
sole true end of education
5. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
philosophy of education
general education
Essence
6. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
experimentalist aesthetic view
Laws
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
existentialist view of education
7. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
pure secularism
Naturalist aim of education
Protestant Reformation
8. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
pragmatism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
matter
9. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
worldview
fundamental part of teaching
Nicocles
10. 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
a subject matter and an activity
Naturalism
Trivium and Quadrivium
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
11. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Criticism of existentialism
Latin
Postmodernity educational practice
arete
12. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Monkey Trial
in the home
scholastic
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
13. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
conceptual mapping
Lyceum
Pluralism
preciseness
14. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
division of controversial issues
Neil Postman
Laws
15. Nature of any given thing
theistic wing of existentialism
Essence
idealist metaphysics
Plato
16. What is the building block of civilization?
idealist value theory
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Family
17. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy of education
postermodernist literary ideas
analysis
18. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
hallmark of liberal arts education
Aristotle
happiness
Protagoras
19. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Blessing
actuality
Kant and George Berkeley
experimentalist aesthetic view
20. 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
reason for sending child to public school
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
metaphysics
Strict neutrality
21. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Socratic method
metaphysics
controlled transaction
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
22. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
analytic philosophy
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
postmodernism
Materialism
23. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Experimentalist view of education
self-knowledge
cognitive
quadrivium
24. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Aristotle
happiness
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
socratic method
25. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Stanley Fish
existentialism
ideal language analysis
Memorabilia
26. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
Epicurus
reason for sending child to public school
Aristotle
27. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Key elements of Greek education
Plato's division of human decisions
First Amendment activists
Tenure
28. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Epicurus
preciseness
normative philosophy of education
29. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
goal of liberal education
arete
reader-response theory
30. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
Naturalist aim of education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
practical side (CDE pattern)
Laws
31. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
epitome of postmodern person
existentialist aesthetics
general education
famous attack of medievals
32. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
a healthy Christian theism
philosophy of education
trivium
33. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
reason for sending child to public school
actuality
Integrated Education
Individual Christian mind
34. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
Experimentalist view of education
reader-response theory
Naturalism vs. Christianity
35. 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
dialectic
Thracians
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Golden Mean and habit
36. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Naturalism
vocational training
Great defect in modern education
Middle Ages
37. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
multiculturalism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
ideal language analysis
Platonic concept of education
38. Children born from 1981-1999
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
John Dewey
Lyceum
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
39. Aspect which makes something tangible
Laws
matter
descriptive
Arabasis
40. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
value neutrality
philosophy as a subject matter
Dorian music
Liberally educated person
41. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
Order of Trivium
fundamental part of teaching
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Nicomachean Ethics
42. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
Pluralism
responsibility theory
Abraham Lincoln
43. 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
Athens
Experimentalist view of education
Plato
44. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
liberal education and career training
difference between leisure and amusement
fundamental part of teaching
45. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
cognitive
virtue
46. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
transcendential idealism
Isocrates
pragmatism
47. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
theoretical issues
Pluralism
liberal education and career training
pragmatism
48. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Athens
tradition of liberal arts education
reason for sending child to public school
philosophy of education
49. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
synthetic
socialization theories
Protagorean rationale for general education
50. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
flute
Euthydemus
collective Christian mind