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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Xenophon
Experimentalist values
empiricism
division of controversial issues
2. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
innoculation method
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Outmoded
conceptual mapping
3. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Abraham Lincoln
criticism of latin
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
preciseness
4. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Justice and meritocracy
actuality
Nicocles
5. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
existentialist view of education
philosophy of education
socialization theories
cultural literacy
6. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
criticism of latin
idealist value theory
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
John Dewey
7. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
empiricism
practical issues
Thomistic realism
Latin
8. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
Socratic method
idealist metaphysics
practical side (CDE pattern)
Liberally educated person
9. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Socrates
Aristotle
Epistemology
10. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Aristotle
Stanford University Students
complete moral education
Memorabilia
11. 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
Lyceum
Peterson
Laws
Trivium and Quadrivium
12. Learning is...
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Experimentalist aesthetics
active
empiricism
13. 'What is valuable?'
a healthy Christian theism
axiology
collective Christian mind
organized knowledge
14. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Protagorean rationale for general education
Naturalism
philosophy as a subject matter
Individual Christian mind
15. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Postmodernity educational practice
general education
California and Texas
Isocrates
16. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Isocrates
Plato
trivium
First Amendment activists
17. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Euthydemus
matter
18. No God
Great defect in modern education
theoretical issues
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Nicocles
19. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
postmodernist aesthetics
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Golden Mean and habit
idealist value theory
20. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
religious zealots
rejected
naturalism
21. Children born from 1981-1999
consumerism
liberal education and career training
philosophical idealist
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
22. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Trivium and Quadrivium
reason
Leisure
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
23. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
philosophy
Thomistic realism
Republic
Protagorean rationale for general education
24. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
postmodernity
Platonic concept of education
X Generation
Epistemology
25. 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
Strict neutrality
Thomistic realism
revelation
Isocrates
26. Concept of the beautiful
Nicocles
existentialism
aesthetics
Allegory of the Cave
27. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
consumerism
normative philosophy of education
active
general education
28. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Trivium and Quadrivium
Herodotus
hairsplitting
consumerism
29. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Sparta
Experimentalist view of education
Nicomachean Ethics
30. Experimentalist students are to be both:
religious zealots
mirror of society and critic of society
leaner-centered approach
rhetoric
31. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Peterson
Individual Christian mind
32. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Justice and meritocracy
Herodotus
rhetoric
postmodernist aesthetics
33. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
cultural literacy
Sir Francis Bacon
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
liberal education and career training
34. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
John Dewey
value neutrality
dogmatic theory
rhetoric
35. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
existentialist aesthetics
cognitive-stage theories
philosophy of education
Abraham Lincoln
36. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
idealist value theory
embrace them intellectually
liberal learning
Plato
37. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
up
controlled transaction
Epistemology
Golden Mean and habit
38. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
happiness
subjective idealism
analytic
existentialism
39. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
collective Christian mind
analytic philosophy
existentialism
40. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
axiology
Stanford University Students
practical issues
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
41. World is permeated by divine essence
existence precedes essence
up
active
Hindu Patheism
42. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Epicurus
Isocrates
quadrivium
Middle Ages
43. 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
Order of Trivium
Abraham Lincoln
analysis
atheistic wing of existentialism
44. What is a 'DWEM'?
Antidosis
Stanford University Students
Dead White European Male
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
45. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
matter
Plato
hairsplitting
46. Theoretical issues and practical issues
goal of liberal education
naturalistic cosmotogies
Hellenica
division of controversial issues
47. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
practical issues
criticism of latin
embrace them intellectually
experiential
48. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Plato
Plato and the arts
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Antidosis
49. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
responsibility theory
reader-response theory
difference between leisure and amusement
50. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
modernity
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
epitome of postmodern person
Criticism of existentialism
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