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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
Tolkein approach
theistic wing of existentialism
Stanley Fish
pragmatism
2. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
paideia
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Experimentalist aesthetics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
3. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
metaphysics
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
4. 1600s; get to truth through science
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
fundamental part of teaching
modernity
Socrates
5. 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?
dogmatic theory
cognitive-stage theories
postmodernist theory of education
6. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Latin
idealist theory of education
Nicocles
reason for sending child to public school
7. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Justice and meritocracy
dialectic
8. Stress self-expression
Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Essence
maturational theories
9. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
form
empiricism
responsibility theory
national government
10. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
Aristotle
synthetic
pure secularism
11. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
general education
metaphysics
matter
12. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Hellenica
Sir Francis Bacon
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Theology
13. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Tolkein approach
Neil Postman
Athens
fundamental part of teaching
14. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Laws
Platonic concept of education
Against the Sophists
cultural literacy
15. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
matter
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
postmodernist aesthetics
Materialism
16. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
embrace them intellectually
Canon
17. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
rejected
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Panathenaicus
18. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Aristotle
First Amendment activists
Theology
vocational training
19. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
ordinary language analysis
Nicocles
Canon
hubris
20. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
normative
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
21. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
cultural literacy
matter
Plato
dialectic
22. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Jacques Derrida
religious zealots
idealist value theory
arete
23. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
critique of great texts of western world
Cosmic dualism
philosophy
consumerism
24. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
Epicurus
John Dewey
sole true end of education
Aristotle
25. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Kant and George Berkeley
Protagoras
Individual Christian mind
26. The 'love of wisdom'
trivium
philosophy
epitome of postmodern person
analysis
27. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
in the home
consumerism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
28. What medievals focused on
Politics
revelation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
confidence
29. Most famous multiculturalist project
idealist value theory
Antidosis
liberal learning
critique of great texts of western world
30. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Isocrates
Athens
Experimentalist aesthetics
Protestant Reformation
31. What is the building block of civilization?
Naturalist aim of education
analytic philosophy
Family
pure secularism
32. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
state
atheistic wing of existentialism
truth from narratives and story-telling
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
33. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
Memorabilia
John Dewey
arete
34. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
rejected
Zeno
35. What was created to protect academic freedom?
noetic powers
Tenure
Epistemology
self-knowledge
36. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Socrates
Thoreau
Monkey Trial
practical side (CDE pattern)
37. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
cognitive-stage theories
liberal education and career training
Middle Ages
38. Two main philosophers of idealism
Integrated Education
philosophy
Plato's division of human decisions
Kant and George Berkeley
39. 'What is good?'
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Naturalism
ethics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
40. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Tenure
empiricism
goal of liberal education
paideia
41. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
Middle Ages
Stanford University Students
pragmatism
42. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
organized knowledge
hallmark of liberal arts education
Key elements of Greek education
naturalism
43. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
normative philosophy of education
cognitive-stage theories
state
Laws
44. 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
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
idealist value theory
Middle Ages
Order of Trivium
45. 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
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
potentiality
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
controlled transaction
46. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Postmodernity educational practice
Aristotle
47. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
up
reason for sending child to public school
organized knowledge
logic
48. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
descriptive
Peterson
pragmatism
49. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
practical issues
noetic powers
famous attack of medievals
Order of Trivium
50. Music should be studied with a view to what?
xenophon
metaphysics
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Politics