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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Abraham Lincoln
synthetic
2. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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3. Rational structure of Christian thought
Sir Francis Bacon
dogmatic theory
Epistemology
Athens
4. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
hubris
sauromatides
cognitive-stage theories
Neil Postman
5. What Greeks mostly focused on
Plato
reason
metaphysics
postmodernism
6. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
innoculation method
Arabasis
socratic method
7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
socialization theories
Golden Mean and habit
Athens
8. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Zeno
Plato
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
paideia
9. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
in the home
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Protestant Reformation
Plato
10. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
empirical analytics
fundamental part of teaching
Theology
11. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
revelation
active
idealist theory of education
Abraham Joshua Heschel
12. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
dialectic
collective Christian mind
Integrated Education
13. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Xenophon
liberal education and career training
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
14. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
postmodernity
naturalism
hubris
Plato
15. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
idealist theory of education
Latin
state
John Dewey
16. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Outmoded
Experimentalist view of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Athens
17. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
controlled transaction
analytic
Materialism
18. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
19. 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
Experimentalist values
Xenophon
categorical imperative
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
20. 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
categorical imperative
analytic philosophy
trivium
organized knowledge
21. 1600s; get to truth through science
Strict neutrality
modernity
Isocrates
Aristotle
22. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Isocrates
Memorabilia
reader-response theory
theistic wing of existentialism
23. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
synthetic
cognitive-stage theories
Sophists
Amish
24. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
analytic
Postmodernity educational practice
theoretical issues
Naturalism vs. Christianity
25. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
famous attack of medievals
Dead White European Male
Pluralism
empirical analytics
26. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
complete moral education
metaphysics
collective Christian mind
Postmodernity educational practice
27. 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
Memorabilia
Aristotle
Tenure
ordinary language analysis
28. Portion of being
Great defect in modern education
analysis
postmodernism
actuality
29. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
postmodernist aesthetics
actuality
Xenophon
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
30. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
a healthy Christian theism
conceptual mapping
Sophists
existentialism
31. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
socialization theories
analysis
tradition of liberal arts education
32. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Peterson
Protagorean rationale for general education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
33. Experimentalist students are to be both:
mirror of society and critic of society
Materialism
Stanford University Students
Aristotle
34. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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35. World is permeated by divine essence
Athens
Hindu Patheism
Peterson
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
36. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
postmodernist theory of education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Lyceum
Athens and Sparta
37. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
famous attack of medievals
innoculation method
Jacques Derrida
embrace them intellectually
38. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Leisure
xenophon
Protagoras
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
39. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
general education
Sigmund Freud
only adequate education
pure secularism
40. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Experimentalist values
Republic
general education
Cosmic dualism
41. 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
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
hallmark of liberal arts education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Pluralism
42. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Dead White European Male
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
43. 'What is good?'
Zeno
ethics
philosophical idealist
Theology
44. What is a 'DWEM'?
normative
Dead White European Male
Platonic concept of education
value neutrality
45. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
leaner-centered approach
Justice and meritocracy
X Generation
trivium
46. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
theoretical issues
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
rhetoric
47. Father of History
Sir Francis Bacon
trivium
value neutrality
Herodotus
48. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
subjective idealism
mirror of society and critic of society
up
hallmark of liberal arts education
49. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Laws
Plato
postmodernist aesthetics
Plato's division of human decisions
50. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
hubris
Leisure