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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
consumerism
rhetoric
hubris
2. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
worldview
Protagoras
naturalism
Dorian music
3. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
Quadrivium
Hindu Patheism
scholastic
theistic wing of existentialism
4. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Abraham Lincoln
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
liberal education and career training
general education
5. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
idealist value theory
Isocrates
vocational training
6. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
local government
Tenure
theistic wing of existentialism
7. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
descriptive
experimentalist aesthetic view
organized knowledge
philosophy of education
8. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Individual Christian mind
John Dewey
transcendential idealism
Dorian music
9. What medievals focused on
Neo-Platonism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
revelation
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
10. It is a dead language
reason for sending child to public school
cognitive
analytic
criticism of latin
11. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
synthetic
empirical analytics
Golden Mean and habit
12. Concept of the beautiful
Sir Francis Bacon
theoretical issues
aesthetics
hubris
13. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
self-knowledge
Plato and the arts
national government
Plato
14. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
active
division of controversial issues
confidence
15. Martin Luther; John Calvin
maturational theories
Protestant Reformation
potentiality
leaner-centered approach
16. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
postmodernity
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
analytic philosophy
matter
17. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
postmodernist theory of education
liberal learning
Politics
difference between leisure and amusement
18. What Greeks mostly focused on
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
liberal learning
Sir Francis Bacon
reason
19. Experience is reality; activity-based
a subject matter and an activity
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
analytic
pragmatism
20. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
general education
practical side (CDE pattern)
consumerism
Protagorean rationale for general education
21. 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
philosophy
Sophists
Order of Trivium
Abraham Lincoln
22. 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?'
Sophists
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Key elements of Greek education
Thracians
23. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
logic
Outmoded
leaner-centered approach
Middle Ages
24. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Postmodernity educational practice
Socrates
Aristotle
trivium
25. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
national government
X Generation
naturalistic cosmotogies
ethics and aesthetics
26. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Platonic concept of education
hallmark of liberal arts education
metaphysics
Plato
27. 'What is valuable?'
ethics and aesthetics
socratic method
difference between leisure and amusement
axiology
28. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
liberal education and career training
logic
Theology
hallmark of liberal arts education
29. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
virtue
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Plato
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
30. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
potentiality
Aristotle
Plato and the arts
31. Good and evil in constant battle
Justice and meritocracy
Cosmic dualism
flute
Nicomachean Ethics
32. 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
hallmark of liberal arts education
self-knowledge
Kant and George Berkeley
33. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
Euthydemus
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Thomistic realism
34. Socrates' ultimate goal
goal of liberal education
pragmatism
revelation
virtue
35. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
confidence
Epicurus
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
dogmatic theory
36. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
philosophy as a subject matter
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
responsibility theory
37. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
ages that Trivium should be used
reason for sending child to public school
Stanford University Students
Quadrivium
38. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Hindu Patheism
collective Christian mind
casuity
linguistic descriptions
39. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
vocational training
linguistic descriptions
famous attack of medievals
a healthy Christian theism
40. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
idealist theory of education
Laws
dogmatic theory
41. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
tradition of liberal arts education
Order of Trivium
Modernity
42. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
Order of Trivium
Plato
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
43. Knowledge most worth having
Xenophon
Herodotus
self-knowledge
Experimentalist values
44. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Tenure
liberation to truth
philosophical analysis
Blessing
45. 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
naturalistic cosmotogies
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Experimentalist values
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
46. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Republic
axiology
value neutrality
Abraham Lincoln
47. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
embrace them intellectually
Laws
Arabasis
idealist metaphysics
48. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
theistic wing of existentialism
active
Golden Mean and habit
49. Technology is not always a __________.
Nicomachean Ethics
postmodernist theory of education
local government
Blessing
50. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Aristotle
Quadrivium
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
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