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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
postermodernist literary ideas
Athens and Sparta
California and Texas
active
2. Technology is not always a __________.
Aristotle
practical issues
Thracians
Blessing
3. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Sparta
Athens and Sparta
noetic powers
Trivium and Quadrivium
4. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Plato
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
trivium
Blessing
5. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
linguistic descriptions
socialization theories
Key elements of Greek education
Naturalism
6. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
confidence
empirical analytics
Criticism of existentialism
7. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
Athens
Memorabilia
Hellenica
8. Martin Luther; John Calvin
happiness
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Protestant Reformation
postmodernist theory of education
9. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
truth from narratives and story-telling
arete
Protagorean rationale for general education
Dead White European Male
10. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Strict neutrality
Theology
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Outmoded
11. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
California and Texas
Individual Christian mind
Modernity
form
12. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
empirical analytics
Zeno
analysis
13. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
rhetoric
consumerism
California and Texas
Amish
14. 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
liberation to truth
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Canon
Tenure
15. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
California and Texas
embrace them intellectually
flute
16. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
flute
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Thomistic realism
17. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
embrace them intellectually
Order of Trivium
idealist value theory
Athens
18. 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
Justice and meritocracy
Trivium and Quadrivium
religious zealots
19. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophy as a subject matter
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
atheistic wing of existentialism
20. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Experimentalist values
complete moral education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
normative
21. 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)
preciseness
synthetic
California and Texas
22. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
national government
mirror of society and critic of society
paideia
multiculturalism
23. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Neil Postman
Xenophon
rhetoric
24. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Neo-Platonism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
reader-response theory
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
25. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Strict neutrality
Thomistic realism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
26. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
analysis
form
existentialist aesthetics
reason for sending child to public school
27. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
epitome of postmodern person
ordinary language analysis
Tenure
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
28. No God
Sophists
Plato
Socrates
Naturalism vs. Christianity
29. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
xenophon
Experimentalist aesthetics
Isocrates
maturational theories
30. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
existence precedes essence
Tolkein approach
pragmatism
collective Christian mind
31. 'What is valuable?'
idealist metaphysics
axiology
maturational theories
existentialism
32. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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33. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
vocational training
leaner-centered approach
controlled transaction
experimentalist aesthetic view
34. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
conceptual mapping
in the home
existentialism
Protagoras
35. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
existentialism
Modernity
Stanford University Students
national government
36. One that shapes the whole person
local government
truth from narratives and story-telling
matter
only adequate education
37. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
pragmatism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
38. Philosophy is both...?
arete
a subject matter and an activity
trivium
hallmark of liberal arts education
39. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
First Amendment activists
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
ages that Trivium should be used
flute
40. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
atheistic wing of existentialism
tradition of liberal arts education
descriptive
Plato
41. 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?
Amish
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
general education
42. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
Jacques Derrida
Plato and the arts
Naturalism vs. Christianity
43. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Against the Sophists
Memorabilia
subjective idealism
ethics
44. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Thracians
conceptual mapping
Modernity
reader-response theory
45. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
local government
responsibility theory
difference between leisure and amusement
socratic method
46. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Politics
hairsplitting
idealist theory of education
xenophon
47. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
general education
socratic method
xenophon
only adequate education
48. Socrates' ultimate goal
happiness
virtue
sauromatides
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
49. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Cosmic dualism
hallmark of liberal arts education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
practical issues
50. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
ethics
worldview
categorical imperative