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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
only adequate education
philosophical idealist
Herodotus
rhetoric
2. Stress self-expression
Nicomachean Ethics
truth from narratives and story-telling
maturational theories
leaner-centered approach
3. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Cosmic dualism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
First Amendment activists
Nicomachean Ethics
4. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Tolkein approach
postmodernity
naturalism
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
5. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
actuality
Monkey Trial
Arabasis
Protestant Reformation
6. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
paideia
idealist value theory
general education
Tenure
7. 'What is good?'
ethics
philosophy of education
Zeno
Abraham Lincoln
8. 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
critique of great texts of western world
hallmark of liberal arts education
Nicomachean Ethics
Canon
9. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
organized knowledge
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
synthetic
pragmatism
10. 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
Golden Mean and habit
Tenure
Athens
Liberally educated person
11. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Thracians
Nicocles
philosophy as a subject matter
Epistemology
12. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
empiricism
Allegory of the Cave
fundamental part of teaching
Thracians
13. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Protagorean rationale for general education
quadrivium
collective Christian mind
undergraduate schools
14. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
naturalism
confidence
arete
15. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Naturalist aim of education
liberation to truth
Outmoded
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
16. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Dead White European Male
Herodotus
descriptive
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
17. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
actuality
Protagoras
Republic
Stanley Fish
18. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
self-knowledge
Dorian music
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Monkey Trial
19. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Leisure
criticism 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
postermodernist literary ideas
20. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Dead White European Male
complete moral education
pure secularism
ordinary language analysis
21. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
general education
Isocrates
normative philosophy of education
22. 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
metaphysics
virtue
Athens and Sparta
Thoreau
23. 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
religious zealots
transcendential idealism
theistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
24. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
socialization theories
national government
Aristotle
Modernity
25. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
ethics
Peterson
Middle Ages
metaphysics
26. Most famous multiculturalist project
critique of great texts of western world
Latin
responsibility theory
Materialism
27. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Family
xenophon
Sir Francis Bacon
potentiality
28. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
a subject matter and an activity
maturational theories
Amish
Cosmic dualism
29. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Liberally educated person
Experimentalist aesthetics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
innoculation method
30. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
Latin
Plato
fundamental part of teaching
31. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
Aristotle
postmodernist theory of education
Thoreau
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
32. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
worldview
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
philosophical analysis
Justice and meritocracy
33. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Athens
Great defect in modern education
existentialist aesthetics
difference between leisure and amusement
34. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
Zeno
Sparta
Quadrivium
philosophical analysis
35. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Plato
postmodernism
multiculturalism
atheistic wing of existentialism
36. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
experimentalist aesthetic view
national government
Golden Mean and habit
37. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
division of controversial issues
Lyceum
innoculation method
Nicocles
38. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
general education
Tolkein approach
active
39. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
virtue
Herodotus
40. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
existentialist view of education
innoculation method
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
noetic powers
41. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
postmodernist theory of education
Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Protagorean rationale for general education
42. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
socialization theories
Plato
experiential
43. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
philosophical idealist
flute
Great defect in modern education
44. 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
Pluralism
Abraham Lincoln
experiential
analytic philosophy
45. What medievals focused on
revelation
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Arabasis
Xenophon
46. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
collective Christian mind
dogmatic theory
idealist metaphysics
goal of empiricism
47. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
Allegory of the Cave
subjective idealism
cultural literacy
48. 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
actuality
atheistic wing of existentialism
Sigmund Freud
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
49. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
empiricism
idealist theory of education
collective Christian mind
reason for sending child to public school
50. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Amish
cognitive-stage theories
form
Plato and the arts