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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
rhetoric
Protagorean rationale for general education
2. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Against the Sophists
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
atheistic wing of existentialism
Protagorean rationale for general education
3. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Trivium and Quadrivium
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
tradition of liberal arts education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
4. Portion of being
Materialism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
actuality
philosophy of education
5. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
xenophon
Sparta
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
6. The 'love of wisdom'
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy
Aristotle
Sigmund Freud
7. Music should be studied with a view to what?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Nicomachean Ethics
Thomistic realism
aesthetics
8. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Laws
Stanford University Students
Epicurus
Republic
9. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
xenophon
epitome of postmodern person
Sophists
general education
10. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Protagorean rationale for general education
rejected
hallmark of liberal arts education
Theology
11. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
confidence
Trivium and Quadrivium
Euthydemus
collective Christian mind
12. Started naturalism
Sir Francis Bacon
paideia
division of controversial issues
flute
13. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
potentiality
empirical analytics
Aristotle
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
14. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
critique of great texts of western world
Plato
socialization theories
virtue
15. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
hubris
Epistemology
maturational theories
16. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
existentialism
Thoreau
metaphysics
Jacques Derrida
17. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
multiculturalism
empirical analytics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
18. A specific body of info every American should know
philosophical idealist
Allegory of the Cave
cultural literacy
transcendential idealism
19. 'What is good?'
Pluralism
Aristotle
Integrated Education
ethics
20. 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
Thomistic realism
Liberally educated person
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
hairsplitting
21. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
normative philosophy of education
philosophy
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
analytic
22. Most famous multiculturalist project
Xenophon
critique of great texts of western world
revelation
Tolkein approach
23. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
flute
liberation to truth
idealist metaphysics
24. Socrates' ultimate goal
Allegory of the Cave
Tolkein approach
virtue
linguistic descriptions
25. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
complete moral education
normative
Dead White European Male
happiness
26. 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
Peterson
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
sauromatides
27. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
postmodernist aesthetics
Stanford University Students
descriptive
empiricism
28. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Sir Francis Bacon
Monkey Trial
logic
Strict neutrality
29. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
hallmark of liberal arts education
Athens and Sparta
Experimentalist values
goal of empiricism
30. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
national government
31. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Politics
Golden Mean and habit
existentialist aesthetics
Stanley Fish
32. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Nicomachean Ethics
Key elements of Greek education
Thomistic realism
postmodernity
33. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Xenophon
Thoreau
Sigmund Freud
Key elements of Greek education
34. 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
Kant and George Berkeley
descriptive
Laws
Order of Trivium
35. What do Americans have the most of in education?
particularism
self-knowledge
Stanford University Students
confidence
36. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
categorical imperative
sauromatides
empirical analytics
controlled transaction
37. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
Aristotle
confidence
Euthydemus
38. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
rhetoric
Strict neutrality
transcendential idealism
philosophy of education
39. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
linguistic descriptions
Sigmund Freud
form
pragmatism
40. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
undergraduate schools
X Generation
responsibility theory
philosophical idealist
41. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Pluralism
form
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Thoreau
42. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
philosophy of education
Zeno
Hellenica
Aristotle
43. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Euthydemus
Zeno
goal of empiricism
Hellenica
44. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Protestant Reformation
existentialist view of education
philosophical analysis
idealist metaphysics
45. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
aesthetics
Pluralism
xenophon
collective Christian mind
46. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Laws
Epistemology
Protestant Reformation
ordinary language analysis
47. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
existentialism
Tolkein approach
a healthy Christian theism
Sigmund Freud
48. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Criticism of existentialism
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
normative philosophy of education
49. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Sigmund Freud
Athens and Sparta
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
local government
50. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
analytic philosophy
in the home
practical issues
practical side (CDE pattern)