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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
philosophical analysis
normative
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
2. What was created to protect academic freedom?
synthetic
Kant and George Berkeley
Tenure
hairsplitting
3. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
philosophical idealist
Modernity
X Generation
naturalism
4. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Plato's division of human decisions
Aristotle
Thoreau
5. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
sauromatides
Plato
consumerism
6. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Laws
Athens and Sparta
idealist theory of education
Pluralism
7. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Euthydemus
linguistic descriptions
undergraduate schools
atheistic wing of existentialism
8. World is an emanation of God's own being
Memorabilia
Neo-Platonism
experiential
socialization theories
9. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
only adequate education
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Naturalist aim of education
10. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
particularism
Protagoras
existence precedes essence
Experimentalist values
11. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
confidence
Order of Trivium
hallmark of liberal arts education
Monkey Trial
12. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
socratic method
consumerism
Plato and the arts
paideia
13. Quintessential educated medieval person
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Platonic concept of education
scholastic
pragmatism
14. Rational structure of Christian thought
virtue
Isocrates
dogmatic theory
atheistic wing of existentialism
15. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
state
Dead White European Male
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
16. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Herodotus
Justice and meritocracy
existentialism
xenophon
17. 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
Middle Ages
existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Neo-Platonism
18. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Great defect in modern education
national government
Tenure
vocational training
19. A specific body of info every American should know
Plato and the arts
cultural literacy
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
analytic
20. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Platonic concept of education
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
philosophical analysis
up
21. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
quadrivium
Pluralism
pragmatism
Plato
22. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
Protagoras
normative philosophy of education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Stanford University Students
23. Knowledge most worth having
Liberally educated person
reason
self-knowledge
existence precedes essence
24. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
empiricism
postmodernity
practical side (CDE pattern)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
25. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Athens
Stanley Fish
Republic
26. Stress self-expression
Integrated Education
existentialist aesthetics
logic
maturational theories
27. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
mirror of society and critic of society
preciseness
state
epitome of postmodern person
28. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Naturalist aim of education
leaner-centered approach
Family
revelation
29. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
postermodernist literary ideas
experiential
Nicocles
Plato's division of human decisions
30. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
postmodernism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
naturalistic cosmotogies
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
31. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
actuality
scholastic
Xenophon
32. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Dorian music
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
metaphysics
state
33. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
general education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Kant and George Berkeley
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
34. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
hallmark of liberal arts education
Nicocles
35. Nature of any given thing
Essence
experiential
empirical analytics
Arabasis
36. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
scholastic
Lyceum
linguistic descriptions
Theology
37. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
experiential
a subject matter and an activity
confidence
38. Socrates' ultimate goal
descriptive
virtue
naturalism
responsibility theory
39. What medievals focused on
Family
trivium
revelation
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
40. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Thomistic realism
goal of liberal education
Integrated Education
reader-response theory
41. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
virtue
Neil Postman
Aristotle
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
42. It is a dead language
embrace them intellectually
hallmark of liberal arts education
Aristotle
criticism of latin
43. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
philosophy
44. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
First Amendment activists
Protagoras
Strict neutrality
Abraham Lincoln
45. Good and evil in constant battle
First Amendment activists
Cosmic dualism
active
Trivium and Quadrivium
46. Concept of the beautiful
aesthetics
preciseness
Athens
Protagoras
47. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
ethics
Antidosis
Quadrivium
48. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy as a subject matter
49. Children born from 1981-1999
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
critique of great texts of western world
Antidosis
Republic
50. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Republic
First Amendment activists
pragmatism