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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
controlled transaction
Latin
Republic
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
2. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
Tenure
postmodernity
existence precedes essence
3. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
idealist metaphysics
Aristotle
reader-response theory
Outmoded
4. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
paideia
Politics
John Dewey
Kant and George Berkeley
5. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
religious zealots
only adequate education
particularism
6. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Neil Postman
experimentalist aesthetic view
cognitive
7. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
reason
Panathenaicus
transcendential idealism
8. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
Isocrates
happiness
confidence
9. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
virtue
existentialism
Aristotle
10. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
consumerism
Sparta
Middle Ages
Allegory of the Cave
11. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
Epicurus
active
Athens
Key elements of Greek education
12. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Cosmic dualism
Outmoded
transcendential idealism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
13. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
Family
reader-response theory
liberation to truth
actuality
14. Father of History
Stanford University Students
Herodotus
axiology
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
15. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Aristotle
postmodernity
Memorabilia
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
16. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
practical side (CDE pattern)
descriptive
liberation to truth
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
17. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Aristotle
complete moral education
Euthydemus
pragmatism
18. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
confidence
socratic method
Strict neutrality
up
19. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Politics
Memorabilia
analytic
20. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Athens and Sparta
Antidosis
Herodotus
synthetic
21. 1600s; get to truth through science
pragmatism
modernity
Sparta
Against the Sophists
22. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
atheistic wing of existentialism
Jacques Derrida
descriptive
23. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
metaphysics
Criticism of existentialism
tradition of liberal arts education
24. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
preciseness
idealist theory of education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
existentialist view of education
25. Learning is...
revelation
Plato
Individual Christian mind
active
26. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
scholastic
analysis
worldview
ages that Trivium should be used
27. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
religious zealots
happiness
pure secularism
28. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
a healthy Christian theism
Protagoras
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
29. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
analytic
difference between leisure and amusement
Liberally educated person
noetic powers
30. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
normative
Laws
Modernity
31. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
virtue
Criticism of existentialism
X Generation
experimentalist aesthetic view
32. 3 traditional philosophies of education
pragmatism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
33. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
subjective idealism
postmodernist aesthetics
postmodernism
Dorian music
34. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
state
metaphysics
general education
ordinary language analysis
35. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
revelation
division of controversial issues
First Amendment activists
36. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
sauromatides
Leisure
California and Texas
37. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
national government
categorical imperative
descriptive
Experimentalist view of education
38. 'Man is the measure of all things'
potentiality
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Protagoras
Individual Christian mind
39. 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
Athens and Sparta
atheistic wing of existentialism
general education
Experimentalist values
40. Two main philosophers of idealism
empirical analytics
organized knowledge
Kant and George Berkeley
general education
41. Aspect which makes something tangible
linguistic descriptions
matter
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
sole true end of education
42. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Tolkein approach
Neo-Platonism
John Dewey
subjective idealism
43. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Socrates
empiricism
form
Naturalist aim of education
44. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
general education
famous attack of medievals
consumerism
Stanley Fish
45. Socrates' ultimate goal
reason
Outmoded
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
virtue
46. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Jacques Derrida
Tenure
normative
Sophists
47. Music should be studied with a view to what?
naturalism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
metaphysics
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
48. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
theistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
Sigmund Freud
49. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Individual Christian mind
naturalism
philosophy of education
socialization theories
50. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
arete
hallmark of liberal arts education
general education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
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