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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
epitome of postmodern person
Xenophon
postmodernity
2. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
cultural literacy
Memorabilia
idealist metaphysics
metaphysics
3. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Panathenaicus
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Tolkein approach
Naturalism
4. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Laws
Naturalism vs. Christianity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Criticism of existentialism
5. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
famous attack of medievals
Protagorean rationale for general education
experimentalist aesthetic view
Zeno
6. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
reason
happiness
postmodernist aesthetics
quadrivium
7. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
worldview
Abraham Lincoln
existentialist view of education
8. 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
Hellenica
philosophical analysis
Aristotle
hubris
9. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Postmodernity educational practice
theoretical issues
quadrivium
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
10. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
dialectic
up
synthetic
Protagorean rationale for general education
11. World is permeated by divine essence
ages that Trivium should be used
collective Christian mind
Sophists
Hindu Patheism
12. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
noetic powers
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
national government
13. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Experimentalist view of education
Monkey Trial
analytic
14. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Memorabilia
Neil Postman
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
casuity
15. 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?'
religious zealots
Key elements of Greek education
cognitive-stage theories
Protagorean rationale for general education
16. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
transcendential idealism
categorical imperative
existence precedes essence
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
17. Capability to change in certain ways
truth from narratives and story-telling
Herodotus
complete moral education
potentiality
18. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
experimentalist aesthetic view
modernity
transcendential idealism
19. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
Athens and Sparta
Isocrates
difference between leisure and amusement
axiology
20. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Cosmic dualism
Memorabilia
metaphysics
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
21. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
religious zealots
Blessing
philosophical analysis
subjective idealism
22. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
Laws
Socratic method
a healthy Christian theism
23. Consisted of subjects
idealist metaphysics
religious zealots
Quadrivium
Hellenica
24. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
logic
Protagorean rationale for general education
Jacques Derrida
Key elements of Greek education
25. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
philosophical analysis
Thomistic realism
sauromatides
liberal education and career training
26. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Xenophon
Stanley Fish
Strict neutrality
state
27. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
socialization theories
leaner-centered approach
existentialism
Hindu Patheism
28. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
Experimentalist view of education
Isocrates
goal of empiricism
29. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Cosmic dualism
Latin
Isocrates
Neil Postman
30. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
state
existentialism
Socrates
philosophy as a subject matter
31. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
particularism
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Experimentalist values
Aristotle
32. To teach men how to learn for themselves
casuity
Family
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
sole true end of education
33. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
dogmatic theory
controlled transaction
Tenure
naturalism
34. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
practical side (CDE pattern)
idealist metaphysics
Epicurus
postermodernist literary ideas
35. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
embrace them intellectually
Stanley Fish
Order of Trivium
reader-response theory
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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Tenure
cognitive-stage theories
Canon
37. Kant's general form of moral law
axiology
state
categorical imperative
postmodernity
38. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
Peterson
embrace them intellectually
axiology
39. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
pragmatism
idealist theory of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Protagorean rationale for general education
40. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
Strict neutrality
Plato
Thoreau
41. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
Essence
Plato and the arts
Order of Trivium
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
42. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Experimentalist view of education
Socrates
division of controversial issues
Sigmund Freud
43. The 'love of wisdom'
metaphysics
transcendential idealism
First Amendment activists
philosophy
44. World is an emanation of God's own being
Golden Mean and habit
naturalism
normative philosophy of education
Neo-Platonism
45. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Allegory of the Cave
Order of Trivium
goal of liberal education
maturational theories
46. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
analytic philosophy
Liberally educated person
ages that Trivium should be used
47. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
Epistemology
Dead White European Male
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
48. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
existentialism
hairsplitting
Aristotle
49. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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50. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Trivium and Quadrivium
liberation to truth
preciseness
collective Christian mind
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