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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
Socrates
Isocrates
rejected
practical issues
2. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Cosmic dualism
fundamental part of teaching
Allegory of the Cave
Strict neutrality
3. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Laws
Panathenaicus
ideal language analysis
4. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
in the home
Tolkein approach
noetic powers
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
5. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
Aristotle
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
6. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
Middle Ages
descriptive
naturalistic cosmotogies
paideia
7. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
socialization theories
leaner-centered approach
Middle Ages
Aristotle
8. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
dogmatic theory
Canon
preciseness
9. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Great defect in modern education
modernity
idealist value theory
organized knowledge
10. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
tradition of liberal arts education
cultural literacy
Kant and George Berkeley
goal of empiricism
11. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Plato
Justice and meritocracy
Great defect in modern education
sole true end of education
12. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
analysis
value neutrality
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Protagoras
13. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Socrates
local government
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
categorical imperative
14. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
maturational theories
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Abraham Lincoln
consumerism
15. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
aesthetics
normative philosophy of education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
16. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
Plato's division of human decisions
synthetic
modernity
17. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
hubris
Peterson
Naturalist aim of education
philosophy of education
18. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Blessing
Justice and meritocracy
dialectic
Sparta
19. Experience is reality; activity-based
liberation to truth
ethics and aesthetics
happiness
pragmatism
20. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
Family
metaphysics
Naturalist aim of education
Platonic concept of education
21. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
division of controversial issues
form
theoretical issues
22. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
conceptual mapping
Theology
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existentialism
23. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Socrates
Naturalism
noetic powers
complete moral education
24. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Arabasis
Euthydemus
worldview
existentialist aesthetics
25. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Latin
Against the Sophists
Canon
Thomistic realism
26. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Dorian music
reason for sending child to public school
liberal learning
27. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
Xenophon
existence precedes essence
experimentalist aesthetic view
28. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
experiential
innoculation method
happiness
Xenophon
29. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
naturalistic cosmotogies
Epicurus
hubris
naturalism
30. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
mirror of society and critic of society
Canon
idealist theory of education
Abraham Lincoln
31. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
rhetoric
Republic
32. Rational structure of Christian thought
self-knowledge
epitome of postmodern person
ethics and aesthetics
dogmatic theory
33. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Isocrates
Hellenica
Trivium and Quadrivium
analysis
34. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
actuality
collective Christian mind
metaphysics
35. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
revelation
Isocrates
Panathenaicus
existentialism
36. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Antidosis
xenophon
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
particularism
37. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
only adequate education
experiential
value neutrality
Blessing
38. What medievals focused on
revelation
Protagoras
metaphysics
Aristotle
39. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
flute
Dead White European Male
religious zealots
worldview
40. 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
casuity
Isocrates
analytic philosophy
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
41. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
rhetoric
only adequate education
socratic method
Politics
42. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Thoreau
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Xenophon
Allegory of the Cave
43. Technology is not always a __________.
logic
philosophical idealist
paideia
Blessing
44. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Nicocles
Monkey Trial
Stanley Fish
Order of Trivium
45. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Zeno
value neutrality
paideia
Isocrates
46. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
pragmatism
Jacques Derrida
Allegory of the Cave
47. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
undergraduate schools
normative philosophy of education
postmodernity
Experimentalist values
48. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
Outmoded
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Isocrates
49. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
existentialism
Outmoded
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
50. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Integrated Education
Euthydemus