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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. World is an emanation of God's own being
virtue
Great defect in modern education
Neo-Platonism
Epistemology
2. What Greeks mostly focused on
ethics and aesthetics
Justice and meritocracy
reason
potentiality
3. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
ordinary language analysis
Aristotle
truth from narratives and story-telling
4. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
metaphysics
normative
revelation
undergraduate schools
5. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Epicurus
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
worldview
collective Christian mind
6. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Theology
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
postermodernist literary ideas
7. 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
reader-response theory
self-knowledge
goal of liberal education
8. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
flute
Sparta
Monkey Trial
transcendential idealism
9. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
state
a subject matter and an activity
hubris
Canon
10. 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
a healthy Christian theism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
ordinary language analysis
practical side (CDE pattern)
11. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
innoculation method
Protagoras
multiculturalism
Plato and the arts
12. 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
noetic powers
Postmodernity educational practice
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
responsibility theory
13. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
Hellenica
California and Texas
worldview
14. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Liberally educated person
Laws
local government
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
15. Experience is reality; activity-based
pragmatism
Protagoras
logic
goal of liberal education
16. 'What is good?'
ethics
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Sir Francis Bacon
17. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
Platonic concept of education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
pragmatism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
18. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
in the home
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
descriptive
criticism of latin
19. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
Memorabilia
practical issues
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
20. Most famous multiculturalist project
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
existentialist view of education
critique of great texts of western world
21. Learning is...
Neil Postman
active
famous attack of medievals
complete moral education
22. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
form
Modernity
Latin
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
23. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
difference between leisure and amusement
maturational theories
Arabasis
Plato's division of human decisions
24. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
Aristotle
linguistic descriptions
Plato
25. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Monkey Trial
ordinary language analysis
innoculation method
hallmark of liberal arts education
26. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Dorian music
existentialist view of education
Experimentalist view of education
criticism of latin
27. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
Protagorean rationale for general education
synthetic
ideal language analysis
28. Stress self-expression
Herodotus
Cosmic dualism
axiology
maturational theories
29. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
existentialism
socialization theories
Republic
30. Philosophy is both...?
matter
Cosmic dualism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
a subject matter and an activity
31. 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
Socrates
Protagorean rationale for general education
active
analytic philosophy
32. Socrates' ultimate goal
Order of Trivium
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Outmoded
virtue
33. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
rhetoric
local government
Xenophon
Stanford University Students
34. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Nicomachean Ethics
Naturalism
religious zealots
Athens and Sparta
35. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
existence precedes essence
ordinary language analysis
Aristotle
Sparta
36. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Dorian music
existence precedes essence
theistic wing of existentialism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
37. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
famous attack of medievals
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Blessing
reason for sending child to public school
38. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
idealist theory of education
Stanley Fish
Republic
39. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Platonic concept of education
philosophical idealist
self-knowledge
happiness
40. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Jacques Derrida
preciseness
Protagoras
41. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
existentialism
Stanford University Students
Canon
Naturalist aim of education
42. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
First Amendment activists
Plato
hubris
Abraham Joshua Heschel
43. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
ideal language analysis
Neil Postman
active
vocational training
44. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
postmodernist theory of education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy as a subject matter
fundamental part of teaching
45. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
X Generation
matter
national government
46. How was ancient Greece divided?
liberal education and career training
postmodernism
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Naturalism vs. Christianity
47. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Peterson
Middle Ages
state
Thomistic realism
48. Music should be studied with a view to what?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
local government
postermodernist literary ideas
empirical analytics
49. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Socratic method
theistic wing of existentialism
50. Experimentalist students are to be both:
revelation
experimentalist aesthetic view
mirror of society and critic of society
Dead White European Male