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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
liberation to truth
liberal education and career training
embrace them intellectually
2. 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
state
division of controversial issues
First Amendment activists
Sparta
3. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Golden Mean and habit
Epicurus
responsibility theory
philosophy of education
4. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
casuity
Tenure
ideal language analysis
cognitive-stage theories
5. How was ancient Greece divided?
cultural literacy
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
philosophical idealist
First Amendment activists
6. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
First Amendment activists
matter
Justice and meritocracy
7. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
Experimentalist aesthetics
arete
pragmatism
8. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
trivium
Blessing
Against the Sophists
9. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
Aristotle
general education
xenophon
existentialism
10. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
postmodernist aesthetics
Modernity
normative
existentialism
11. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
conceptual mapping
ethics
preciseness
Postmodernity educational practice
12. 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
general education
Nicocles
Order of Trivium
Platonic concept of education
13. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Thoreau
Experimentalist values
synthetic
local government
14. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
controlled transaction
X Generation
Sparta
Plato and the arts
15. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Plato
Memorabilia
controlled transaction
Stanford University Students
16. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
atheistic wing of existentialism
philosophical analysis
Pluralism
leaner-centered approach
17. Good and evil in constant battle
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
linguistic descriptions
hubris
Cosmic dualism
18. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
Epistemology
state
local government
19. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
religious zealots
naturalistic cosmotogies
Athens and Sparta
20. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Laws
xenophon
practical side (CDE pattern)
Experimentalist values
21. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Republic
synthetic
rhetoric
Euthydemus
22. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
experimentalist aesthetic view
23. 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;
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existentialism
postmodernism
philosophical analysis
24. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Postmodernity educational practice
Plato and the arts
Thomistic realism
Xenophon
25. 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
Euthydemus
existentialism
self-knowledge
noetic powers
26. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
normative
up
modernity
cognitive
27. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Stanley Fish
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Strict neutrality
28. Stress self-expression
Nicomachean Ethics
organized knowledge
philosophical idealist
maturational theories
29. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
Socrates
existentialism
embrace them intellectually
postmodernist theory of education
30. 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
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Republic
Epicurus
31. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Socrates
ages that Trivium should be used
Liberally educated person
existentialist view of education
32. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
transcendential idealism
Republic
difference between leisure and amusement
existentialism
33. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
normative philosophy of education
Criticism of existentialism
embrace them intellectually
Monkey Trial
34. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
X Generation
sauromatides
Isocrates
rejected
35. Philosophy is both...?
Sir Francis Bacon
a subject matter and an activity
vocational training
revelation
36. It is a dead language
up
criticism of latin
existentialist view of education
socialization theories
37. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
active
Modernity
38. 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
pure secularism
practical side (CDE pattern)
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
descriptive
39. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
responsibility theory
Antidosis
Experimentalist view of education
40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Hellenica
flute
41. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
descriptive
Outmoded
actuality
trivium
42. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Aristotle
Lyceum
pure secularism
subjective idealism
43. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
religious zealots
criticism of latin
empiricism
44. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Dorian music
controlled transaction
Neil Postman
embrace them intellectually
45. The 'love of wisdom'
Stanley Fish
state
philosophy
Integrated Education
46. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
active
responsibility theory
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
47. One that shapes the whole person
local government
Isocrates
only adequate education
Athens
48. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Materialism
Peterson
form
Tenure
49. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Against the Sophists
atheistic wing of existentialism
empiricism
50. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
controlled transaction
Naturalist aim of education
idealist metaphysics
Aristotle