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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Canon
Modernity
2. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Strict neutrality
collective Christian mind
cognitive
Thoreau
3. 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;
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernism
Integrated Education
Liberally educated person
4. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
philosophy as a subject matter
pragmatism
Middle Ages
revelation
5. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
Hindu Patheism
Key elements of Greek education
Neo-Platonism
6. 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
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Liberally educated person
Criticism of existentialism
analysis
7. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Isocrates
Antidosis
conceptual mapping
arete
8. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
undergraduate schools
matter
logic
Amish
9. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Monkey Trial
Herodotus
10. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
Cosmic dualism
California and Texas
Stanford University Students
11. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Experimentalist values
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
axiology
Epistemology
12. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
postmodernist aesthetics
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Epistemology
complete moral education
13. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
existentialism
Middle Ages
Peterson
casuity
14. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Xenophon
state
Antidosis
California and Texas
15. World is an emanation of God's own being
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Neo-Platonism
existentialism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
16. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
socialization theories
Lyceum
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
17. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
metaphysics
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
idealist value theory
Naturalism
18. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
Stanley Fish
Isocrates
mirror of society and critic of society
19. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
Justice and meritocracy
theistic wing of existentialism
practical side (CDE pattern)
20. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
Aristotle
fundamental part of teaching
Liberally educated person
21. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Peterson
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
liberation to truth
22. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Thoreau
Theology
innoculation method
liberation to truth
23. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
Pluralism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Athens
Experimentalist view of education
24. Father of History
Monkey Trial
hubris
Herodotus
quadrivium
25. Consisted of subjects
Naturalist aim of education
Euthydemus
Quadrivium
ages that Trivium should be used
26. Good and evil in constant battle
metaphysics
Cosmic dualism
form
casuity
27. What is the building block of civilization?
reason for sending child to public school
transcendential idealism
Family
Aristotle
28. General ideas about education and their logical implications
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Sigmund Freud
Nicocles
theoretical issues
29. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
maturational theories
Stanford University Students
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
existentialist aesthetics
30. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Panathenaicus
existentialist view of education
responsibility theory
Athens and Sparta
31. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
only adequate education
noetic powers
actuality
arete
32. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
Politics
conceptual mapping
self-knowledge
33. A specific body of info every American should know
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
cultural literacy
Platonic concept of education
liberal education and career training
34. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Tenure
cognitive-stage theories
hubris
Justice and meritocracy
35. Categories of philosophy as an activity
ethics
happiness
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Tolkein approach
36. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Protagoras
Integrated Education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Plato
37. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Neo-Platonism
Criticism of existentialism
metaphysics
confidence
38. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
reason
Plato and the arts
39. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
hubris
undergraduate schools
Outmoded
particularism
40. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Sigmund Freud
41. Technology is not always a __________.
Neil Postman
Latin
responsibility theory
Blessing
42. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
empiricism
normative philosophy of education
Thoreau
43. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Order of Trivium
ethics
Protagorean rationale for general education
Arabasis
44. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Isocrates
Nicomachean Ethics
Trivium and Quadrivium
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
45. 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
hubris
Naturalism vs. Christianity
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Trivium and Quadrivium
46. 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
xenophon
Theology
Antidosis
Against the Sophists
47. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Nicomachean Ethics
Pluralism
fundamental part of teaching
Jacques Derrida
48. 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
Kant and George Berkeley
Plato and the arts
hairsplitting
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
49. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
pure secularism
sauromatides
Materialism
philosophy of education
50. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
reason
liberal learning
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
normative
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