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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
philosophy of education
X Generation
2. Kant's general form of moral law
ages that Trivium should be used
Tolkein approach
consumerism
categorical imperative
3. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
only adequate education
Politics
Peterson
Memorabilia
4. Academic freedom does not mean _______
particularism
Antidosis
Protagorean rationale for general education
Strict neutrality
5. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
goal of liberal education
aesthetics
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
pragmatism
6. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
analytic philosophy
vocational training
ethics
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
7. 'What is good?'
a healthy Christian theism
Experimentalist view of education
ethics
First Amendment activists
8. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
reader-response theory
Theology
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
9. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Thracians
collective Christian mind
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
10. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
hubris
Socratic method
Golden Mean and habit
Integrated Education
11. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
tradition of liberal arts education
Individual Christian mind
Outmoded
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
12. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
analytic
paideia
Amish
13. Encourages individual choice
fundamental part of teaching
California and Texas
flute
existentialism
14. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
linguistic descriptions
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Stanford University Students
15. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
Thracians
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
controlled transaction
modernity
16. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
linguistic descriptions
Golden Mean and habit
aesthetics
Peterson
17. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Republic
experimentalist aesthetic view
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Tenure
18. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
linguistic descriptions
Epistemology
metaphysics
Aristotle
19. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
vocational training
Thoreau
20. Nature of any given thing
Criticism of existentialism
pragmatism
Essence
reason
21. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
goal of liberal education
Nicomachean Ethics
Middle Ages
John Dewey
22. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
a healthy Christian theism
Materialism
Protagoras
philosophy of education
23. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Socrates
Sophists
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
24. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
leaner-centered approach
Sigmund Freud
Leisure
postmodernist theory of education
25. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Tenure
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
ordinary language analysis
reader-response theory
26. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Xenophon
Leisure
linguistic descriptions
idealist value theory
27. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
hairsplitting
flute
Panathenaicus
metaphysics
28. 1600s; get to truth through science
Epicurus
synthetic
modernity
Thoreau
29. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
tradition of liberal arts education
Plato
existentialism
Protagorean rationale for general education
30. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
conceptual mapping
Aristotle
analytic
a healthy Christian theism
31. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Outmoded
fundamental part of teaching
Xenophon
normative philosophy of education
32. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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33. What was created to protect academic freedom?
John Dewey
Tenure
analytic
Canon
34. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
modernity
ethics and aesthetics
Sophists
35. 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
analysis
practical side (CDE pattern)
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
California and Texas
36. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
virtue
Protagoras
Justice and meritocracy
general education
37. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
local government
socialization theories
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
analytic philosophy
38. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
ideal language analysis
Panathenaicus
in the home
conceptual mapping
39. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
xenophon
controlled transaction
Tenure
noetic powers
40. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
postermodernist literary ideas
hallmark of liberal arts education
local government
41. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Naturalism vs. Christianity
leaner-centered approach
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
42. 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
synthetic
worldview
postmodernist theory of education
existentialism
43. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
liberal education and career training
scholastic
philosophy of education
potentiality
44. Rational structure of Christian thought
First Amendment activists
dogmatic theory
Tenure
Leisure
45. 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?
Zeno
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existentialist aesthetics
46. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
goal of empiricism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
California and Texas
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
47. No God
rejected
Athens
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Latin
48. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Sir Francis Bacon
multiculturalism
49. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
practical issues
liberation to truth
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
50. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
goal of liberal education
hubris
form