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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Epicurus
reason for sending child to public school
Amish
Canon
2. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
postermodernist literary ideas
liberation to truth
xenophon
Experimentalist view of education
3. All knowledge is derived from the senses
philosophical analysis
empiricism
atheistic wing of existentialism
Tolkein approach
4. 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?'
philosophical idealist
Liberally educated person
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Key elements of Greek education
5. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
axiology
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Athens
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
6. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
existentialist aesthetics
local government
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophy as a subject matter
7. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
Politics
hubris
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
8. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
socialization theories
consumerism
analytic philosophy
naturalistic cosmotogies
9. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Family
synthetic
trivium
Aristotle
10. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
Laws
California and Texas
arete
11. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Justice and meritocracy
transcendential idealism
X Generation
experimentalist aesthetic view
12. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
noetic powers
Aristotle
form
rejected
13. 'What is good?'
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Key elements of Greek education
ethics
existentialist view of education
14. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
Isocrates
particularism
Aristotle
15. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
religious zealots
quadrivium
Nicomachean Ethics
paideia
16. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Modernity
ethics
analysis
sauromatides
17. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
complete moral education
Lyceum
general education
vocational training
18. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
revelation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
truth from narratives and story-telling
Allegory of the Cave
19. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
atheistic wing of existentialism
Tolkein approach
Laws
ideal language analysis
20. Capability to change in certain ways
California and Texas
potentiality
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
John Dewey
21. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
metaphysics
rhetoric
active
Thoreau
22. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
noetic powers
logic
vocational training
Sparta
23. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
vocational training
Experimentalist values
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Kant and George Berkeley
24. 1600s; get to truth through science
Republic
Hindu Patheism
modernity
dogmatic theory
25. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Outmoded
criticism of latin
ethics
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
26. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Sparta
Plato
naturalistic cosmotogies
27. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
sauromatides
Isocrates
embrace them intellectually
Xenophon
28. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
xenophon
normative
pragmatism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
29. What do Americans have the most of in education?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
organized knowledge
Sir Francis Bacon
confidence
30. Concept of the beautiful
aesthetics
rhetoric
rejected
Republic
31. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Euthydemus
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
32. Father of History
Herodotus
ethics and aesthetics
normative
analysis
33. Aspect which makes something tangible
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Abraham Lincoln
matter
liberation to truth
34. 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
in the home
Nicocles
particularism
paideia
35. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
potentiality
multiculturalism
Golden Mean and habit
36. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
value neutrality
famous attack of medievals
Lyceum
37. What medievals focused on
cultural literacy
revelation
Stanley Fish
Laws
38. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
subjective idealism
39. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
ethics
Xenophon
existence precedes essence
Herodotus
40. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
scholastic
goal of empiricism
Zeno
41. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
trivium
rhetoric
reader-response theory
42. General ideas about education and their logical implications
epitome of postmodern person
Plato and the arts
Isocrates
theoretical issues
43. 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
Latin
Nicocles
Order of Trivium
dialectic
44. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Allegory of the Cave
philosophical idealist
form
a healthy Christian theism
45. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Dead White European Male
matter
transcendential idealism
46. It is a dead language
Liberally educated person
Euthydemus
criticism of latin
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
47. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
ordinary language analysis
Integrated Education
experimentalist aesthetic view
experiential
48. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
logic
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
cognitive
Memorabilia
49. Philosophy is both...?
Republic
a subject matter and an activity
active
Blessing
50. 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
empiricism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
xenophon
responsibility theory