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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Martin Luther; John Calvin
controlled transaction
difference between leisure and amusement
Protestant Reformation
descriptive
2. 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
Key elements of Greek education
Epistemology
critique of great texts of western world
3. Aspect which makes something tangible
Isocrates
subjective idealism
matter
Great defect in modern education
4. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Protagorean rationale for general education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
experiential
X Generation
5. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Latin
Cosmic dualism
religious zealots
Panathenaicus
6. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Socratic method
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Socrates
7. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Peterson
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Laws
Protagorean rationale for general education
8. 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?'
quadrivium
analysis
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Key elements of Greek education
9. Learning is...
active
Abraham Joshua Heschel
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Key elements of Greek education
10. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Stanley Fish
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
postmodernism
Experimentalist values
11. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Canon
philosophy as a subject matter
general education
rhetoric
12. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
existentialist view of education
X Generation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Laws
13. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
dogmatic theory
synthetic
Quadrivium
First Amendment activists
14. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Sophists
analytic
Thoreau
linguistic descriptions
15. 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
Protagoras
idealist theory of education
ages that Trivium should be used
Leisure
16. Academic freedom does not mean _______
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Strict neutrality
Epistemology
state
17. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
experimentalist aesthetic view
truth from narratives and story-telling
idealist theory of education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
18. Started naturalism
metaphysics
revelation
liberation to truth
Sir Francis Bacon
19. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
vocational training
Tenure
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
a healthy Christian theism
20. Children born from 1981-1999
preciseness
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
a healthy Christian theism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
21. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
self-knowledge
Dead White European Male
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Canon
22. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Canon
Strict neutrality
Athens
23. Stress self-expression
ordinary language analysis
maturational theories
X Generation
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
24. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
quadrivium
critique of great texts of western world
Stanford University Students
potentiality
25. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
postmodernity
empirical analytics
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
undergraduate schools
26. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
trivium
Family
philosophy of education
Thoreau
27. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
socialization theories
cognitive-stage theories
responsibility theory
28. 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
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Justice and meritocracy
Antidosis
practical side (CDE pattern)
29. Most famous multiculturalist project
Justice and meritocracy
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
revelation
critique of great texts of western world
30. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
paideia
liberal education and career training
confidence
Isocrates
31. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Socrates
dialectic
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
32. 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
Plato
Abraham Lincoln
liberal learning
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
33. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
happiness
Justice and meritocracy
idealist metaphysics
logic
34. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
worldview
Middle Ages
Stanley Fish
35. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
postmodernism
Family
rhetoric
in the home
36. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
idealist theory of education
philosophy of education
experiential
37. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
Strict neutrality
existentialism
Aristotle
Zeno
38. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Athens
X Generation
empiricism
Trivium and Quadrivium
39. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
dialectic
Herodotus
40. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
idealist metaphysics
Peterson
vocational training
philosophy as a subject matter
41. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
subjective idealism
existentialist view of education
Sir Francis Bacon
42. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Epicurus
Isocrates
Lyceum
form
43. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
postmodernist aesthetics
normative
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
44. List of works that have always been studied
actuality
Canon
criticism of latin
Aristotle
45. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Thomistic realism
Canon
46. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Arabasis
epitome of postmodern person
Quadrivium
transcendential idealism
47. 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
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Sir Francis Bacon
Athens
theistic wing of existentialism
48. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
Hellenica
Stanley Fish
atheistic wing of existentialism
49. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Quadrivium
Euthydemus
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Thracians
50. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Tolkein approach
truth from narratives and story-telling
ages that Trivium should be used