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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
normative
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Canon
Arabasis
2. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
religious zealots
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
reason for sending child to public school
3. Knowledge most worth having
Panathenaicus
self-knowledge
liberal education and career training
undergraduate schools
4. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
Sophists
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
ideal language analysis
Xenophon
5. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
Dead White European Male
division of controversial issues
trivium
6. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
reason for sending child to public school
normative philosophy of education
Middle Ages
Experimentalist view of education
7. 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
Nicocles
idealist metaphysics
postmodernist theory of education
dialectic
8. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Experimentalist values
metaphysics
Plato's division of human decisions
California and Texas
9. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Materialism
liberal learning
Quadrivium
flute
10. 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
Trivium and Quadrivium
Quadrivium
Kant and George Berkeley
Plato
11. 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
normative
Liberally educated person
Criticism of existentialism
Politics
12. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Athens
Memorabilia
matter
Hindu Patheism
13. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Republic
First Amendment activists
Protestant Reformation
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
14. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Liberally educated person
ordinary language analysis
Theology
organized knowledge
15. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Trivium and Quadrivium
general education
dialectic
preciseness
16. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Republic
active
Dorian music
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
17. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
philosophy
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Platonic concept of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
18. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
logic
Monkey Trial
dogmatic theory
Euthydemus
19. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
casuity
descriptive
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
20. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Canon
virtue
value neutrality
descriptive
21. What medievals focused on
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Panathenaicus
tradition of liberal arts education
revelation
22. Stress self-expression
synthetic
postermodernist literary ideas
maturational theories
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
23. A specific body of info every American should know
Isocrates
Thomistic realism
Strict neutrality
cultural literacy
24. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
general education
philosophical analysis
Memorabilia
25. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Sparta
idealist theory of education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
idealist metaphysics
26. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Stanley Fish
naturalism
Protagoras
27. What was created to protect academic freedom?
in the home
Nicomachean Ethics
Justice and meritocracy
Tenure
28. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Protagoras
cognitive
socialization theories
existentialist view of education
29. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
existentialism
Quadrivium
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Isocrates
30. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Plato
scholastic
hairsplitting
socratic method
31. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Herodotus
Experimentalist aesthetics
experiential
32. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Plato and the arts
philosophical idealist
Lyceum
John Dewey
33. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
vocational training
Golden Mean and habit
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
complete moral education
34. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
reason for sending child to public school
rhetoric
hubris
ethics
35. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
Cosmic dualism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
happiness
36. 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
Tolkein approach
Socratic method
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
analysis
37. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Tenure
national government
Canon
postmodernity
38. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
sole true end of education
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Naturalist aim of education
39. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
idealist value theory
epitome of postmodern person
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
40. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
collective Christian mind
pure secularism
Individual Christian mind
responsibility theory
41. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Latin
theoretical issues
Athens
42. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Aristotle
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
cognitive-stage theories
Athens
43. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
preciseness
ordinary language analysis
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
existentialism
44. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
Against the Sophists
Athens
controlled transaction
45. Two categories of axiology
national government
critique of great texts of western world
ethics and aesthetics
Platonic concept of education
46. 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
Theology
Middle Ages
Sparta
rhetoric
47. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
experimentalist aesthetic view
naturalism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
48. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
axiology
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Experimentalist values
consumerism
49. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
logic
Protagorean rationale for general education
50. 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
actuality
Protestant Reformation
Materialism