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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
transcendential idealism
local government
in the home
synthetic
2. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Protagoras
3. Concept of the beautiful
fundamental part of teaching
Middle Ages
aesthetics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
4. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
innoculation method
Epicurus
controlled transaction
5. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
cognitive-stage theories
theoretical issues
innoculation method
organized knowledge
6. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
reason for sending child to public school
Neo-Platonism
Integrated Education
7. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
self-knowledge
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
experiential
Middle Ages
8. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
complete moral education
Athens
Great defect in modern education
philosophy as a subject matter
9. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
form
Platonic concept of education
idealist theory of education
modernity
10. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Plato
sole true end of education
existence precedes essence
First Amendment activists
11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
dogmatic theory
reason
Trivium and Quadrivium
12. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
existentialist view of education
Athens
Stanley Fish
13. 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
hairsplitting
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Socrates
analytic philosophy
14. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
metaphysics
collective Christian mind
Naturalism
Republic
15. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
Peterson
paideia
mirror of society and critic of society
16. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
particularism
philosophical analysis
division of controversial issues
17. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
Integrated Education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Socratic method
reason
18. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
Naturalism vs. Christianity
analytic
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
particularism
19. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
collective Christian mind
Nicomachean Ethics
Latin
20. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Integrated Education
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Protagoras
Against the Sophists
21. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Leisure
innoculation method
theoretical issues
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
22. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
sauromatides
naturalism
Blessing
23. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
paideia
practical side (CDE pattern)
Aristotle
Experimentalist view of education
24. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
logic
Individual Christian mind
particularism
25. 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
postmodernism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
26. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Nicocles
Antidosis
Isocrates
naturalism
27. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Allegory of the Cave
analytic
modernity
idealist value theory
28. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
general education
actuality
Protagorean rationale for general education
cognitive-stage theories
29. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
epitome of postmodern person
value neutrality
Thracians
30. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Republic
general education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Xenophon
31. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
cognitive
metaphysics
Stanford University Students
Abraham Lincoln
32. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
up
Athens
Protestant Reformation
33. Technology is not always a __________.
Platonic concept of education
xenophon
experiential
Blessing
34. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
potentiality
Athens
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
happiness
35. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
Stanford University Students
axiology
hubris
experiential
36. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Key elements of Greek education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Politics
Postmodernity educational practice
37. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
logic
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Modernity
Postmodernity educational practice
38. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
dogmatic theory
Quadrivium
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
collective Christian mind
39. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Plato and the arts
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Dorian music
value neutrality
40. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Naturalism vs. Christianity
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
casuity
axiology
41. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Justice and meritocracy
logic
conceptual mapping
Lyceum
42. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Postmodernity educational practice
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
arete
Theology
43. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
worldview
critique of great texts of western world
modernity
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
44. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
consumerism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
modernity
45. Knowledge most worth having
Protagoras
self-knowledge
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
conceptual mapping
46. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
scholastic
philosophical analysis
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
California and Texas
47. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
goal of liberal education
Thoreau
Thomistic realism
48. 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
Zeno
philosophical analysis
a subject matter and an activity
49. Learning is...
active
form
postmodernist theory of education
general education
50. Music should be studied with a view to what?
complete moral education
idealist value theory
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
quadrivium
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