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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
paideia
Plato
experimentalist aesthetic view
postmodernist aesthetics
2. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
existentialism
a healthy Christian theism
California and Texas
Thoreau
3. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
axiology
descriptive
Panathenaicus
4. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
rhetoric
Criticism of existentialism
hallmark of liberal arts education
5. 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
reader-response theory
a subject matter and an activity
practical side (CDE pattern)
hubris
6. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Abraham Lincoln
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
7. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Politics
reader-response theory
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Dead White European Male
8. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Trivium and Quadrivium
truth from narratives and story-telling
organized knowledge
dialectic
9. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Experimentalist values
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
local government
ages that Trivium should be used
10. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
maturational theories
modernity
liberal learning
Thomistic realism
11. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
socratic method
experimentalist aesthetic view
synthetic
empiricism
12. Concept of the beautiful
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
aesthetics
theistic wing of existentialism
goal of empiricism
13. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
local government
paideia
pragmatism
cognitive
14. 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
John Dewey
atheistic wing of existentialism
worldview
Isocrates
15. 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
trivium
leaner-centered approach
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
division of controversial issues
16. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
Golden Mean and habit
Outmoded
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
17. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Postmodernity educational practice
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Dead White European Male
Jacques Derrida
18. Started naturalism
Aristotle
Sir Francis Bacon
Key elements of Greek education
Essence
19. 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
innoculation method
Hellenica
Naturalism
Sophists
20. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
Experimentalist aesthetics
Monkey Trial
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
21. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
existentialist view of education
categorical imperative
Panathenaicus
analytic
22. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
theoretical issues
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
hairsplitting
Hindu Patheism
23. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Kant and George Berkeley
Xenophon
existence precedes essence
postmodernist theory of education
24. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
naturalistic cosmotogies
quadrivium
25. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
form
Pluralism
vocational training
26. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Athens
ages that Trivium should be used
socialization theories
practical side (CDE pattern)
27. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
cognitive
reason
national government
Latin
28. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Stanford University Students
actuality
idealist metaphysics
organized knowledge
29. Stress self-expression
national government
Canon
linguistic descriptions
maturational theories
30. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
truth from narratives and story-telling
form
hallmark of liberal arts education
reason for sending child to public school
31. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
famous attack of medievals
revelation
Modernity
controlled transaction
32. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Protagorean rationale for general education
local government
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Abraham Joshua Heschel
33. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
existentialism
theoretical issues
Against the Sophists
Pluralism
34. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Tolkein approach
Peterson
Order of Trivium
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
35. 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
Sparta
empiricism
Family
criticism of latin
36. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
analytic philosophy
Blessing
Allegory of the Cave
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
37. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
First Amendment activists
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Canon
Isocrates
38. Consisted of subjects
Tolkein approach
Quadrivium
existentialism
postmodernism
39. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
experimentalist aesthetic view
Tolkein approach
up
Socrates
40. World is permeated by divine essence
Key elements of Greek education
ethics
Hindu Patheism
Dorian music
41. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
postmodernism
postmodernity
philosophical idealist
liberal education and career training
42. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
cognitive-stage theories
Outmoded
division of controversial issues
Strict neutrality
43. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
leaner-centered approach
Epistemology
confidence
rhetoric
44. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
Herodotus
multiculturalism
Laws
Criticism of existentialism
45. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
confidence
cognitive-stage theories
complete moral education
mirror of society and critic of society
46. What the medievals are criticized for
pure secularism
hairsplitting
theistic wing of existentialism
particularism
47. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
ages that Trivium should be used
empirical analytics
philosophy of education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
48. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
existentialist view of education
a subject matter and an activity
cultural literacy
Theology
49. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
transcendential idealism
complete moral education
existentialism
sauromatides
50. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
normative
noetic powers
Hindu Patheism