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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Laws
Family
local government
tradition of liberal arts education
2. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Neil Postman
ages that Trivium should be used
Sophists
John Dewey
3. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
philosophy
Socrates
categorical imperative
4. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
general education
preciseness
truth from narratives and story-telling
undergraduate schools
5. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
vocational training
national government
value neutrality
practical issues
6. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
philosophy of education
naturalistic cosmotogies
form
liberation to truth
7. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
casuity
dialectic
Euthydemus
up
8. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
ideal language analysis
division of controversial issues
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Family
9. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
paideia
metaphysics
Stanford University Students
goal of liberal education
10. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
complete moral education
Leisure
paideia
hallmark of liberal arts education
11. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
innoculation method
reason
Experimentalist values
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
12. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Justice and meritocracy
pure secularism
paideia
Lyceum
13. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
analysis
noetic powers
experiential
paideia
14. 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
philosophy of education
theistic wing of existentialism
reason
Tenure
15. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
ordinary language analysis
practical issues
criticism of latin
reader-response theory
16. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
liberal education and career training
Naturalism
difference between leisure and amusement
multiculturalism
17. 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
Laws
ordinary language analysis
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Key elements of Greek education
18. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
trivium
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Plato
pure secularism
19. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Peterson
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
paideia
20. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
epitome of postmodern person
difference between leisure and amusement
21. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
philosophy as a subject matter
Plato
postmodernist aesthetics
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
22. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Sigmund Freud
form
existentialist aesthetics
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
23. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Plato's division of human decisions
Key elements of Greek education
matter
existentialist view of education
24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
Theology
flute
Experimentalist view of education
25. 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
sauromatides
postmodernist theory of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Euthydemus
26. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Experimentalist view of education
reason for sending child to public school
analytic
existentialist aesthetics
27. 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
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
existentialism
revelation
postmodernism
28. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
First Amendment activists
Athens and Sparta
embrace them intellectually
liberal education and career training
29. 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
postmodernist theory of education
Socratic method
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
flute
30. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Isocrates
empiricism
hairsplitting
reason for sending child to public school
31. Good and evil in constant battle
tradition of liberal arts education
theoretical issues
Order of Trivium
Cosmic dualism
32. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Against the Sophists
scholastic
Integrated Education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
33. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
analytic philosophy
Abraham Lincoln
analytic
34. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Postmodernity educational practice
Sophists
conceptual mapping
sauromatides
35. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
theistic wing of existentialism
analytic
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
postmodernism
36. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
Nicocles
epitome of postmodern person
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Panathenaicus
37. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Criticism of existentialism
Aristotle
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Middle Ages
38. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Amish
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Criticism of existentialism
multiculturalism
39. 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
reason for sending child to public school
Nicocles
First Amendment activists
Protagoras
40. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Key elements of Greek education
Socrates
idealist metaphysics
philosophical idealist
41. Technology is not always a __________.
First Amendment activists
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Blessing
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
42. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
Stanley Fish
normative
Family
43. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Family
mirror of society and critic of society
Sigmund Freud
Individual Christian mind
44. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
Canon
John Dewey
Experimentalist aesthetics
45. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
postmodernist theory of education
Experimentalist values
national government
sole true end of education
46. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Isocrates
vocational training
Leisure
47. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Latin
Liberally educated person
naturalism
48. 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
noetic powers
Euthydemus
Republic
national government
49. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
Sir Francis Bacon
general education
John Dewey
50. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
up
axiology