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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
reason
hairsplitting
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
philosophy as a subject matter
2. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
Protestant Reformation
happiness
Plato's division of human decisions
metaphysics
3. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
Strict neutrality
Sigmund Freud
philosophy of education
4. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
Blessing
Zeno
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
practical issues
5. Two categories of axiology
Athens and Sparta
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
ethics and aesthetics
Dead White European Male
6. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
modernity
pragmatism
scholastic
logic
7. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
reason
ages that Trivium should be used
Athens
Naturalist aim of education
8. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
normative philosophy of education
analytic
Euthydemus
criticism of latin
9. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Kant and George Berkeley
Family
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
ideal language analysis
10. Philosophy is both...?
Lyceum
metaphysics
practical side (CDE pattern)
a subject matter and an activity
11. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Protagorean rationale for general education
ideal language analysis
Postmodernity educational practice
12. What is a 'DWEM'?
embrace them intellectually
hubris
normative
Dead White European Male
13. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Thoreau
philosophy as a subject matter
First Amendment activists
14. 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
Isocrates
atheistic wing of existentialism
hallmark of liberal arts education
socratic method
15. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Criticism of existentialism
naturalistic cosmotogies
collective Christian mind
consumerism
16. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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17. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
fundamental part of teaching
rejected
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
18. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Criticism of existentialism
paideia
only adequate education
Xenophon
19. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
analytic philosophy
preciseness
Laws
Sigmund Freud
20. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
paideia
Plato
21. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Theology
scholastic
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
metaphysics
22. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Hellenica
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Monkey Trial
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
23. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
famous attack of medievals
multiculturalism
Neil Postman
controlled transaction
24. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
descriptive
collective Christian mind
25. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
hubris
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
postermodernist literary ideas
postmodernism
26. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
Jacques Derrida
Platonic concept of education
existence precedes essence
difference between leisure and amusement
27. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
responsibility theory
leaner-centered approach
normative philosophy of education
28. 1600s; get to truth through science
value neutrality
modernity
confidence
descriptive
29. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Criticism of existentialism
a healthy Christian theism
revelation
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
30. Children born from 1981-1999
Herodotus
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
idealist metaphysics
Aristotle
31. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Antidosis
descriptive
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
ordinary language analysis
32. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
idealist metaphysics
descriptive
Panathenaicus
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
33. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Athens
naturalism
Arabasis
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
34. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
postmodernist aesthetics
hubris
Isocrates
35. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
Strict neutrality
pragmatism
division of controversial issues
quadrivium
36. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
philosophy
Aristotle
flute
Liberally educated person
37. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
linguistic descriptions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Postmodernity educational practice
38. Capability to change in certain ways
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
potentiality
Thoreau
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
39. List of works that have always been studied
experimentalist aesthetic view
Canon
Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophy
40. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Golden Mean and habit
philosophy of education
idealist metaphysics
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
41. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
ideal language analysis
Family
Modernity
Latin
42. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
a healthy Christian theism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Euthydemus
43. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Plato
experimentalist aesthetic view
Athens
matter
44. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
multiculturalism
hubris
confidence
Athens
45. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Zeno
Laws
Socratic method
in the home
46. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
difference between leisure and amusement
Trivium and Quadrivium
practical issues
47. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
transcendential idealism
Naturalism
Euthydemus
a subject matter and an activity
48. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Aristotle
synthetic
Republic
arete
49. One that shapes the whole person
Justice and meritocracy
theoretical issues
only adequate education
axiology
50. The 'love of wisdom'
reason
philosophy
Protestant Reformation
California and Texas