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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What do Americans have the most of in education?
criticism of latin
noetic powers
Lyceum
confidence
2. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Isocrates
potentiality
Experimentalist aesthetics
Republic
3. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
practical issues
First Amendment activists
Politics
4. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
Aristotle
complete moral education
multiculturalism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
5. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
potentiality
in the home
worldview
controlled transaction
6. 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
religious zealots
postmodernity
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
7. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Euthydemus
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
8. What is the building block of civilization?
mirror of society and critic of society
Sir Francis Bacon
Family
religious zealots
9. 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
Hellenica
reason for sending child to public school
Panathenaicus
Monkey Trial
10. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
philosophy as a subject matter
Tolkein approach
xenophon
reader-response theory
11. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
Stanley Fish
liberal learning
socratic method
12. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
organized knowledge
Abraham Joshua Heschel
worldview
socratic method
13. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
in the home
Dorian music
idealist metaphysics
Stanford University Students
14. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Isocrates
difference between leisure and amusement
Latin
idealist value theory
15. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
complete moral education
multiculturalism
arete
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
16. 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
a subject matter and an activity
Socratic method
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Aristotle
17. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
Republic
trivium
reason
18. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
trivium
existentialism
reader-response theory
postermodernist literary ideas
19. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
idealist metaphysics
mirror of society and critic of society
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
famous attack of medievals
20. 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?'
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Zeno
Aristotle
Key elements of Greek education
21. 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
descriptive
Tolkein approach
Nicocles
Isocrates
22. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
fundamental part of teaching
Memorabilia
Abraham Joshua Heschel
23. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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24. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Outmoded
cultural literacy
pure secularism
Great defect in modern education
25. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
modernity
religious zealots
experimentalist aesthetic view
complete moral education
26. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
X Generation
Athens
Criticism of existentialism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
27. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Nicomachean Ethics
Sparta
collective Christian mind
atheistic wing of existentialism
28. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
paideia
postmodernism
cognitive
scholastic
29. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
synthetic
postmodernity
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
general education
30. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Pluralism
Protagorean rationale for general education
Modernity
preciseness
31. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
Experimentalist values
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Republic
Tenure
32. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
X Generation
idealist theory of education
innoculation method
trivium
33. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
X Generation
Epicurus
Naturalism vs. Christianity
critique of great texts of western world
34. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
goal of liberal education
dialectic
Arabasis
tradition of liberal arts education
35. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
actuality
ordinary language analysis
a healthy Christian theism
organized knowledge
36. Most famous multiculturalist project
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
critique of great texts of western world
Materialism
Antidosis
37. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
socratic method
ideal language analysis
Tenure
metaphysics
38. 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
general education
rhetoric
Blessing
atheistic wing of existentialism
39. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
postmodernist aesthetics
Naturalist aim of education
Isocrates
40. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Peterson
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Athens and Sparta
41. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
trivium
philosophy of education
X Generation
Individual Christian mind
42. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
cultural literacy
subjective idealism
logic
national government
43. 'What is good?'
ordinary language analysis
ethics
X Generation
organized knowledge
44. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Plato's division of human decisions
experimentalist aesthetic view
Key elements of Greek education
rhetoric
45. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Xenophon
Epistemology
local government
Athens and Sparta
46. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Hindu Patheism
Arabasis
Jacques Derrida
Liberally educated person
47. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
normative philosophy of education
naturalism
Athens and Sparta
casuity
48. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
postmodernism
Cosmic dualism
Outmoded
ages that Trivium should be used
49. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
national government
Criticism of existentialism
practical side (CDE pattern)
50. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
consumerism
idealist theory of education
postmodernist aesthetics
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues