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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
goal of empiricism
preciseness
California and Texas
Amish
2. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
division of controversial issues
Great defect in modern education
normative philosophy of education
3. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Strict neutrality
Aristotle
Latin
normative
4. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Tolkein approach
Stanley Fish
division of controversial issues
First Amendment activists
5. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
innoculation method
Nicocles
Aristotle
6. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Lyceum
existentialist aesthetics
empirical analytics
division of controversial issues
7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
in the home
socialization theories
Xenophon
liberal education and career training
8. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
naturalistic cosmotogies
epitome of postmodern person
critique of great texts of western world
Socrates
9. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Postmodernity educational practice
general education
Laws
critique of great texts of western world
10. Quintessential educated medieval person
leaner-centered approach
Protagoras
normative
scholastic
11. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
sole true end of education
analysis
preciseness
Experimentalist aesthetics
12. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
embrace them intellectually
collective Christian mind
13. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Outmoded
Monkey Trial
subjective idealism
Abraham Lincoln
14. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
existence precedes essence
idealist metaphysics
cognitive-stage theories
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
15. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
rhetoric
normative
Isocrates
axiology
16. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Antidosis
Laws
Experimentalist view of education
Protagoras
17. Good and evil in constant battle
postmodernist aesthetics
Cosmic dualism
cognitive
undergraduate schools
18. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Order of Trivium
descriptive
Golden Mean and habit
virtue
19. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
consumerism
Dead White European Male
Individual Christian mind
Tenure
20. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Experimentalist view of education
Stanford University Students
dogmatic theory
21. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
Experimentalist values
xenophon
goal of liberal education
logic
22. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
rhetoric
reason for sending child to public school
normative
Integrated Education
23. How was ancient Greece divided?
Against the Sophists
embrace them intellectually
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Plato
24. The 'love of wisdom'
philosophy
Key elements of Greek education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
national government
25. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Protagorean rationale for general education
First Amendment activists
organized knowledge
26. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
reader-response theory
complete moral education
Zeno
27. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
analytic
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Thracians
casuity
28. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
conceptual mapping
value neutrality
worldview
29. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
synthetic
X Generation
theoretical issues
Lyceum
30. 'What is valuable?'
axiology
particularism
Against the Sophists
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
31. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
Memorabilia
Xenophon
California and Texas
32. 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
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Aristotle
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
33. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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34. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
conceptual mapping
sauromatides
Justice and meritocracy
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
35. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
hubris
socialization theories
in the home
36. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Laws
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
theoretical issues
Stanley Fish
37. Experimentalist students are to be both:
axiology
Antidosis
Middle Ages
mirror of society and critic of society
38. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
hairsplitting
leaner-centered approach
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
39. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Trivium and Quadrivium
philosophical idealist
Theology
dialectic
40. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
ethics and aesthetics
aesthetics
linguistic descriptions
Golden Mean and habit
41. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
ordinary language analysis
tradition of liberal arts education
Panathenaicus
Naturalism
42. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
ideal language analysis
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
43. Encourages individual choice
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
a healthy Christian theism
Cosmic dualism
existentialism
44. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Protestant Reformation
metaphysics
Euthydemus
45. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Zeno
local government
practical side (CDE pattern)
46. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
existentialism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Stanley Fish
47. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Republic
Materialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
atheistic wing of existentialism
48. Consisted of subjects
Epistemology
Monkey Trial
Quadrivium
normative philosophy of education
49. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
existentialist view of education
sauromatides
general education
experiential
50. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
goal of liberal education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
cognitive
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach