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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
multiculturalism
liberation to truth
epitome of postmodern person
analysis
2. Music should be studied with a view to what?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Thracians
local government
philosophical analysis
3. Children born from 1981-1999
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
ethics
Experimentalist values
4. 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
reason for sending child to public school
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
leaner-centered approach
5. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
worldview
Thoreau
Amish
6. Technology is not always a __________.
Zeno
Blessing
rejected
xenophon
7. 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
pragmatism
philosophy of education
Postmodernity educational practice
Plato
8. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
xenophon
cognitive
Xenophon
9. 1600s; get to truth through science
Postmodernity educational practice
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
idealist value theory
modernity
10. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
existentialist view of education
Trivium and Quadrivium
Naturalism
11. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Theology
dogmatic theory
Leisure
Plato
12. What is the building block of civilization?
innoculation method
Family
casuity
practical issues
13. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
xenophon
ordinary language analysis
Theology
philosophy of education
14. Portion of being
actuality
Plato's division of human decisions
Experimentalist aesthetics
First Amendment activists
15. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
pragmatism
Zeno
Protestant Reformation
16. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
undergraduate schools
California and Texas
17. A specific body of info every American should know
Postmodernity educational practice
Laws
cultural literacy
Outmoded
18. Use women more as slaves
Republic
postmodernist aesthetics
Thracians
Thomistic realism
19. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
20. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
conceptual mapping
pragmatism
paideia
21. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
philosophical analysis
axiology
Memorabilia
form
22. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
Protestant Reformation
xenophon
value neutrality
23. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
X Generation
Kant and George Berkeley
Individual Christian mind
24. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
socratic method
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Plato's division of human decisions
25. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Key elements of Greek education
subjective idealism
Republic
Epicurus
26. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
dogmatic theory
atheistic wing of existentialism
Nicomachean Ethics
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
27. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
religious zealots
cognitive
form
responsibility theory
28. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Epistemology
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
29. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Xenophon
Criticism of existentialism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
a healthy Christian theism
30. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
naturalism
John Dewey
dogmatic theory
31. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
mirror of society and critic of society
subjective idealism
xenophon
liberal learning
32. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Plato
Protagoras
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Individual Christian mind
33. 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
controlled transaction
tradition of liberal arts education
a subject matter and an activity
34. List of works that have always been studied
pragmatism
axiology
Canon
goal of liberal education
35. Categories of philosophy as an activity
existentialism
philosophical idealist
socratic method
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
36. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
postmodernist theory of education
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
rhetoric
reader-response theory
37. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Tenure
normative philosophy of education
religious zealots
fundamental part of teaching
38. Capability to change in certain ways
arete
Thomistic realism
potentiality
Xenophon
39. Started naturalism
idealist value theory
Sir Francis Bacon
arete
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
40. 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
happiness
Experimentalist aesthetics
Socratic method
difference between leisure and amusement
41. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Nicocles
Great defect in modern education
collective Christian mind
Platonic concept of education
42. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Neil Postman
atheistic wing of existentialism
scholastic
worldview
43. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
embrace them intellectually
existence precedes essence
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
cognitive
44. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Experimentalist aesthetics
pure secularism
Trivium and Quadrivium
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
45. 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
in the home
Canon
Athens
worldview
46. Nature of any given thing
cognitive-stage theories
experiential
Essence
pragmatism
47. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
state
pragmatism
ethics
48. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
postermodernist literary ideas
Platonic concept of education
a subject matter and an activity
49. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
normative philosophy of education
Pluralism
Sigmund Freud
50. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
quadrivium
tradition of liberal arts education
Canon
Plato