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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
axiology
Jacques Derrida
Nicocles
Liberally educated person
2. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Latin
Aristotle
3. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Isocrates
postmodernity
descriptive
theoretical issues
4. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Plato
normative
5. 1600s; get to truth through science
collective Christian mind
confidence
modernity
socialization theories
6. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
synthetic
Protestant Reformation
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
7. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
vocational training
Stanley Fish
postmodernism
8. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
national government
idealist theory of education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
embrace them intellectually
9. 3 traditional philosophies of education
hallmark of liberal arts education
subjective idealism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
10. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
socialization theories
famous attack of medievals
liberation to truth
Protagoras
11. Portion of being
actuality
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Laws
categorical imperative
12. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Sophists
goal of liberal education
reason for sending child to public school
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
13. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
religious zealots
existentialist aesthetics
Modernity
Outmoded
14. Technology is not always a __________.
Plato and the arts
Quadrivium
descriptive
Blessing
15. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
Essence
noetic powers
categorical imperative
16. Concept of the beautiful
Thomistic realism
aesthetics
Platonic concept of education
Peterson
17. Socrates' ultimate goal
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
division of controversial issues
controlled transaction
virtue
18. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
scholastic
Individual Christian mind
existentialism
Aristotle
19. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
maturational theories
leaner-centered approach
collective Christian mind
Plato
20. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Dead White European Male
Epistemology
naturalism
Integrated Education
21. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
ideal language analysis
general education
preciseness
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
22. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
idealist theory of education
a healthy Christian theism
Trivium and Quadrivium
epitome of postmodern person
23. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
goal of liberal education
transcendential idealism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
analytic philosophy
24. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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25. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Tenure
Republic
hubris
26. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Athens
Stanley Fish
socialization theories
trivium
27. 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
a subject matter and an activity
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Aristotle
28. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
philosophical analysis
general education
Euthydemus
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
29. 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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
idealist metaphysics
postmodernism
Golden Mean and habit
30. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
controlled transaction
Protagoras
Individual Christian mind
31. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Liberally educated person
Individual Christian mind
Xenophon
Memorabilia
32. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Modernity
hallmark of liberal arts education
ethics
sauromatides
33. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
dialectic
X Generation
existentialist view of education
leaner-centered approach
34. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
Isocrates
Nicocles
Athens and Sparta
practical side (CDE pattern)
35. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
active
First Amendment activists
tradition of liberal arts education
Peterson
36. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
maturational theories
Protagorean rationale for general education
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Sophists
37. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
transcendential idealism
Thracians
cognitive
Republic
38. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
philosophy
theistic wing of existentialism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
undergraduate schools
39. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Sigmund Freud
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
self-knowledge
difference between leisure and amusement
40. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
synthetic
Theology
Laws
Sigmund Freud
41. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
collective Christian mind
reason
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
logic
42. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Aristotle
vocational training
state
ideal language analysis
43. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
idealist value theory
idealist metaphysics
collective Christian mind
Thoreau
44. Learning is...
active
Amish
liberal learning
sauromatides
45. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
Amish
Protagoras
leaner-centered approach
46. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
a subject matter and an activity
Individual Christian mind
linguistic descriptions
collective Christian mind
47. Rational structure of Christian thought
philosophy as a subject matter
dogmatic theory
famous attack of medievals
theoretical issues
48. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
philosophical idealist
cognitive-stage theories
local government
modernity
49. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
postmodernist theory of education
naturalism
Materialism
ordinary language analysis
50. 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
vocational training
atheistic wing of existentialism
noetic powers
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