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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Thomistic realism
cognitive-stage theories
famous attack of medievals
postmodernism
2. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
philosophical analysis
scholastic
national government
3. Good and evil in constant battle
tradition of liberal arts education
Cosmic dualism
categorical imperative
only adequate education
4. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Thoreau
socialization theories
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Protagoras
5. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Jacques Derrida
general education
form
paideia
6. What medievals focused on
socratic method
revelation
postmodernist aesthetics
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
7. The 'love of wisdom'
Protagoras
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy
Jacques Derrida
8. Started naturalism
Against the Sophists
Antidosis
Socrates
Sir Francis Bacon
9. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
matter
national government
10. Portion of being
analytic philosophy
idealist value theory
actuality
existentialism
11. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Hindu Patheism
Zeno
pure secularism
Republic
12. Two main philosophers of idealism
Plato and the arts
metaphysics
preciseness
Kant and George Berkeley
13. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
socratic method
flute
philosophy
liberal learning
14. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
postmodernist aesthetics
cognitive-stage theories
Laws
cognitive
15. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
mirror of society and critic of society
Herodotus
Postmodernity educational practice
16. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
atheistic wing of existentialism
Leisure
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Laws
17. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
naturalistic cosmotogies
Protagorean rationale for general education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
18. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
potentiality
in the home
controlled transaction
responsibility theory
19. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
mirror of society and critic of society
preciseness
20. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
multiculturalism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
21. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Pluralism
Isocrates
Criticism of existentialism
22. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
confidence
difference between leisure and amusement
Latin
trivium
23. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Stanford University Students
normative philosophy of education
idealist value theory
Tolkein approach
24. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Aristotle
division of controversial issues
worldview
socratic method
25. What is a 'DWEM'?
cognitive-stage theories
linguistic descriptions
Dead White European Male
collective Christian mind
26. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
Lyceum
theoretical issues
Family
27. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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28. 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
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Protagoras
epitome of postmodern person
Euthydemus
29. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Family
Criticism of existentialism
maturational theories
Monkey Trial
30. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
postmodernity
Great defect in modern education
Integrated Education
Theology
31. Concept of the beautiful
liberation to truth
aesthetics
Thracians
famous attack of medievals
32. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
John Dewey
collective Christian mind
Integrated Education
33. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
truth from narratives and story-telling
X Generation
philosophy
pragmatism
34. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Stanley Fish
innoculation method
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
hubris
35. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
philosophical idealist
quadrivium
Pluralism
Aristotle
36. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Order of Trivium
cognitive
hallmark of liberal arts education
ethics and aesthetics
37. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
Antidosis
Justice and meritocracy
religious zealots
Abraham Lincoln
38. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
Key elements of Greek education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Pluralism
Justice and meritocracy
39. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
flute
sauromatides
Quadrivium
40. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Sophists
conceptual mapping
Naturalist aim of education
liberal learning
41. Nature of any given thing
experiential
Essence
cultural literacy
virtue
42. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
John Dewey
Arabasis
cognitive-stage theories
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
43. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Stanley Fish
Epicurus
quadrivium
44. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
Aristotle
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
epitome of postmodern person
45. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Arabasis
synthetic
Materialism
Laws
46. Children born from 1981-1999
innoculation method
Herodotus
postmodernism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
47. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
noetic powers
Integrated Education
up
48. Stress self-expression
Canon
Isocrates
tradition of liberal arts education
maturational theories
49. Encourages individual choice
active
Order of Trivium
revelation
existentialism
50. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
rejected
truth from narratives and story-telling
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive