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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Experimentalist aesthetics
consumerism
Aristotle
Epicurus
2. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
empirical analytics
only adequate education
Golden Mean and habit
3. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
paideia
hubris
theoretical issues
consumerism
4. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
ages that Trivium should be used
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
controlled transaction
5. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Platonic concept of education
reader-response theory
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernity
6. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
Nicomachean Ethics
Key elements of Greek education
John Dewey
7. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Antidosis
responsibility theory
Jacques Derrida
cultural literacy
8. Encourages individual choice
paideia
existentialism
worldview
Postmodernity educational practice
9. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Sophists
Abraham Lincoln
10. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
ethics
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Plato
11. Two categories of axiology
Plato
ethics and aesthetics
philosophy
religious zealots
12. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
categorical imperative
Kant and George Berkeley
California and Texas
13. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
vocational training
Modernity
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
hubris
14. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
synthetic
Sparta
Socrates
pragmatism
15. 'What is valuable?'
rhetoric
existentialism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
axiology
16. Experimentalist students are to be both:
cultural literacy
mirror of society and critic of society
reader-response theory
Xenophon
17. 1600s; get to truth through science
casuity
modernity
Athens
matter
18. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Individual Christian mind
Experimentalist aesthetics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
19. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
naturalism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Justice and meritocracy
20. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Naturalism vs. Christianity
epitome of postmodern person
Latin
a healthy Christian theism
21. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Platonic concept of education
Tenure
undergraduate schools
22. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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23. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Laws
noetic powers
24. 3 traditional philosophies of education
X Generation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
vocational training
Liberally educated person
25. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
self-knowledge
Abraham Lincoln
cognitive
Stanford University Students
26. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
normative philosophy of education
ordinary language analysis
27. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
conceptual mapping
general education
casuity
maturational theories
28. 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
Athens
ages that Trivium should be used
epitome of postmodern person
theoretical issues
29. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
truth from narratives and story-telling
philosophy
Dead White European Male
form
30. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
postmodernist theory of education
difference between leisure and amusement
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
31. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
theistic wing of existentialism
collective Christian mind
conceptual mapping
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
32. The 'love of wisdom'
Protagoras
philosophy
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
33. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Trivium and Quadrivium
existentialist aesthetics
cultural literacy
Tenure
34. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
theistic wing of existentialism
sole true end of education
Middle Ages
35. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
axiology
Epistemology
Tolkein approach
Modernity
36. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Experimentalist aesthetics
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
experiential
Memorabilia
37. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
fundamental part of teaching
famous attack of medievals
Against the Sophists
undergraduate schools
38. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
flute
dialectic
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
postmodernism
39. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
embrace them intellectually
happiness
a healthy Christian theism
40. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
sole true end of education
conceptual mapping
Laws
vocational training
41. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
fundamental part of teaching
cognitive-stage theories
axiology
Neil Postman
42. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
rejected
value neutrality
Experimentalist values
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
43. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Athens
ages that Trivium should be used
trivium
Order of Trivium
44. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
virtue
Abraham Lincoln
Thomistic realism
First Amendment activists
45. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
up
X Generation
matter
46. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Latin
flute
leaner-centered approach
Isocrates
47. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
criticism of latin
existentialist view of education
happiness
reason for sending child to public school
48. 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)
categorical imperative
Postmodernity educational practice
existentialism
collective Christian mind
49. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
innoculation method
Politics
existence precedes essence
axiology
50. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
national government
multiculturalism
quadrivium