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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Plato's division of human decisions
Epistemology
Plato
ethics
2. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
critique of great texts of western world
dialectic
normative philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
3. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
descriptive
rhetoric
paideia
rejected
4. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
existence precedes essence
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
postermodernist literary ideas
a healthy Christian theism
5. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
consumerism
flute
6. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Latin
ages that Trivium should be used
existentialism
arete
7. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
cultural literacy
actuality
analytic
tradition of liberal arts education
8. 3 traditional philosophies of education
descriptive
innoculation method
Nicomachean Ethics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
9. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
practical side (CDE pattern)
postmodernist theory of education
Isocrates
10. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
virtue
Stanford University Students
postmodernity
11. Capability to change in certain ways
Postmodernity educational practice
general education
potentiality
happiness
12. Most famous multiculturalist project
critique of great texts of western world
postmodernism
famous attack of medievals
Aristotle
13. 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
Athens and Sparta
Antidosis
complete moral education
ethics and aesthetics
14. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
sauromatides
Stanford University Students
atheistic wing of existentialism
practical side (CDE pattern)
15. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
modernity
Lyceum
a subject matter and an activity
16. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
cultural literacy
Panathenaicus
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Tolkein approach
17. Music should be studied with a view to what?
philosophy of education
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
postmodernism
Pluralism
18. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
pure secularism
Aristotle
Aristotle
Peterson
19. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
preciseness
consumerism
national government
20. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Blessing
truth from narratives and story-telling
fundamental part of teaching
confidence
21. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Protagorean rationale for general education
Stanley Fish
empiricism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
22. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
linguistic descriptions
naturalistic cosmotogies
Trivium and Quadrivium
23. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
state
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
24. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
conceptual mapping
Tenure
Plato and the arts
25. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
reason for sending child to public school
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
criticism of latin
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
26. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
a healthy Christian theism
Trivium and Quadrivium
Postmodernity educational practice
27. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Trivium and Quadrivium
Plato's division of human decisions
undergraduate schools
Abraham Joshua Heschel
28. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
state
philosophy
conceptual mapping
Xenophon
29. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
state
existentialist aesthetics
descriptive
philosophy of education
30. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
arete
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
famous attack of medievals
Neil Postman
31. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
aesthetics
Quadrivium
hallmark of liberal arts education
synthetic
32. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
pure secularism
empiricism
consumerism
33. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Experimentalist values
Thoreau
Socrates
Politics
34. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Canon
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
35. What Greeks mostly focused on
Isocrates
Leisure
Against the Sophists
reason
36. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
philosophy
embrace them intellectually
rhetoric
xenophon
37. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
naturalistic cosmotogies
form
Sparta
hallmark of liberal arts education
38. 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
sauromatides
metaphysics
Nicocles
Abraham Lincoln
39. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
analytic philosophy
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
existentialism
Individual Christian mind
40. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Aristotle
Sophists
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Abraham Lincoln
41. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
ethics
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Socrates
Plato's division of human decisions
42. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
ages that Trivium should be used
Experimentalist values
Socratic method
undergraduate schools
43. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Key elements of Greek education
Hindu Patheism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
postmodernist aesthetics
44. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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45. Encourages individual choice
ideal language analysis
postmodernism
existentialism
noetic powers
46. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Nicomachean Ethics
Isocrates
Protestant Reformation
Hindu Patheism
47. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
casuity
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
truth from narratives and story-telling
48. Father of History
only adequate education
Herodotus
idealist value theory
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
49. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
ethics
Justice and meritocracy
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
50. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Latin
Sigmund Freud
Hellenica
flute