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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Blessing
local government
conceptual mapping
particularism
2. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
matter
idealist metaphysics
philosophy
pragmatism
3. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
virtue
Sparta
religious zealots
4. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
Golden Mean and habit
actuality
paideia
up
5. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Zeno
existence precedes essence
California and Texas
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
6. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
truth from narratives and story-telling
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
empirical analytics
Peterson
7. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
philosophical idealist
Protagoras
Thomistic realism
8. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
postmodernism
reason
atheistic wing of existentialism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
9. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
philosophy
sauromatides
Amish
10. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
philosophy
critique of great texts of western world
11. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Herodotus
Justice and meritocracy
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
xenophon
12. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Memorabilia
Stanley Fish
Epistemology
13. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
happiness
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
worldview
14. 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
value neutrality
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
difference between leisure and amusement
Thoreau
15. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
ordinary language analysis
Abraham Lincoln
Athens and Sparta
Strict neutrality
16. 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
Isocrates
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Plato's division of human decisions
confidence
17. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Socratic method
flute
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernity
18. Stress self-expression
scholastic
maturational theories
aesthetics
trivium
19. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Athens
epitome of postmodern person
existentialism
mirror of society and critic of society
20. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
First Amendment activists
naturalism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Strict neutrality
21. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Aristotle
Thomistic realism
22. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Politics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Latin
23. 'Man is the measure of all things'
in the home
pragmatism
Protagoras
Politics
24. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
active
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Postmodernity educational practice
worldview
25. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
socialization theories
Platonic concept of education
Protagoras
liberal education and career training
26. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
Herodotus
modernity
Criticism of existentialism
27. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Republic
cognitive
Republic
dogmatic theory
28. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
xenophon
hallmark of liberal arts education
ordinary language analysis
29. List of works that have always been studied
Laws
Canon
Athens
postmodernism
30. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
Socratic method
Nicocles
active
naturalistic cosmotogies
31. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
a subject matter and an activity
Liberally educated person
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
postmodernism
32. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
liberal education and career training
aesthetics
form
embrace them intellectually
33. Socrates' ultimate goal
paideia
virtue
Athens
xenophon
34. Nature of any given thing
ordinary language analysis
Sir Francis Bacon
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Essence
35. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
flute
Laws
pragmatism
Aristotle
36. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Cosmic dualism
reason
transcendential idealism
Leisure
37. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Socratic method
postmodernity
mirror of society and critic of society
Politics
38. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Protagoras
Protagorean rationale for general education
Protagoras
39. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Dorian music
Middle Ages
religious zealots
form
40. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Aristotle
liberation to truth
philosophy as a subject matter
transcendential idealism
41. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
hairsplitting
rhetoric
reason for sending child to public school
Justice and meritocracy
42. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
Kant and George Berkeley
experimentalist aesthetic view
rhetoric
43. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Isocrates
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Experimentalist aesthetics
Justice and meritocracy
44. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
Panathenaicus
Quadrivium
Protagoras
Latin
45. 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
postmodernity
metaphysics
Peterson
Family
46. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Kant and George Berkeley
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
First Amendment activists
Hindu Patheism
47. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
hallmark of liberal arts education
ethics and aesthetics
particularism
Athens and Sparta
48. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
sauromatides
organized knowledge
philosophical idealist
aesthetics
49. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
metaphysics
Athens
Golden Mean and habit
Aristotle
50. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
matter
Nicomachean Ethics
Naturalist aim of education