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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
axiology
Abraham Lincoln
Naturalist aim of education
goal of liberal education
2. Children born from 1981-1999
consumerism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Cosmic dualism
3. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
happiness
synthetic
famous attack of medievals
existentialism
4. Good and evil in constant battle
reader-response theory
Cosmic dualism
Peterson
matter
5. World is an emanation of God's own being
existentialist aesthetics
Neo-Platonism
John Dewey
Individual Christian mind
6. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Golden Mean and habit
Leisure
Stanford University Students
7. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
empirical analytics
in the home
Theology
Protestant Reformation
8. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Plato and the arts
Aristotle
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Laws
9. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
postmodernist theory of education
Justice and meritocracy
Experimentalist aesthetics
rejected
10. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
rhetoric
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Laws
11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
embrace them intellectually
idealist value theory
hallmark of liberal arts education
12. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Sparta
Middle Ages
value neutrality
13. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
naturalistic cosmotogies
Hellenica
experimentalist aesthetic view
postmodernist aesthetics
14. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Neo-Platonism
division of controversial issues
pragmatism
descriptive
15. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
practical issues
state
trivium
happiness
16. 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
Order of Trivium
Quadrivium
Athens and Sparta
Monkey Trial
17. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
arete
Politics
Memorabilia
rhetoric
18. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
First Amendment activists
liberal education and career training
embrace them intellectually
sauromatides
19. Academic freedom does not mean _______
multiculturalism
a subject matter and an activity
sole true end of education
Strict neutrality
20. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
conceptual mapping
self-knowledge
Theology
21. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Euthydemus
Socratic method
existentialism
22. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
idealist value theory
ethics and aesthetics
23. 3 traditional philosophies of education
cognitive-stage theories
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
controlled transaction
24. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
vocational training
Socrates
Zeno
national government
25. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
Protagorean rationale for general education
Sigmund Freud
worldview
26. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Republic
socratic method
liberation to truth
normative philosophy of education
27. Most famous multiculturalist project
rejected
quadrivium
mirror of society and critic of society
critique of great texts of western world
28. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
sole true end of education
First Amendment activists
naturalism
Blessing
29. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
hallmark of liberal arts education
Thomistic realism
Herodotus
30. Nature of any given thing
Essence
happiness
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
sole true end of education
31. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
consumerism
Justice and meritocracy
reason
practical issues
32. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
hallmark of liberal arts education
actuality
pragmatism
ages that Trivium should be used
33. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Protagoras
famous attack of medievals
logic
fundamental part of teaching
34. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
dialectic
critique of great texts of western world
John Dewey
normative
35. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
ordinary language analysis
xenophon
liberal education and career training
36. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Dorian music
metaphysics
Aristotle
active
37. 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
Protagorean rationale for general education
idealist value theory
Sophists
Jacques Derrida
38. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
Plato's division of human decisions
Integrated Education
ordinary language analysis
Strict neutrality
39. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Laws
logic
collective Christian mind
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
40. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
sauromatides
Panathenaicus
Cosmic dualism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
41. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
Nicocles
California and Texas
Antidosis
hallmark of liberal arts education
42. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
idealist value theory
X Generation
matter
43. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
philosophical analysis
Protagoras
Sir Francis Bacon
complete moral education
44. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
innoculation method
postermodernist literary ideas
philosophical idealist
Zeno
45. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
responsibility theory
Socrates
Plato's division of human decisions
46. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Sigmund Freud
Aristotle
Euthydemus
Peterson
47. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Athens
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
existentialist view of education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
48. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
revelation
Isocrates
existentialist view of education
tradition of liberal arts education
49. 'Man is the measure of all things'
innoculation method
postmodernist aesthetics
Protagoras
existence precedes essence
50. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Middle Ages
maturational theories
Nicomachean Ethics