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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
form
Sophists
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Athens and Sparta
2. Experience is reality; activity-based
Middle Ages
pragmatism
particularism
existentialist view of education
3. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Hellenica
Order of Trivium
collective Christian mind
4. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
hairsplitting
empirical analytics
Sir Francis Bacon
responsibility theory
5. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
Liberally educated person
Plato and the arts
Outmoded
Experimentalist values
6. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
sauromatides
Tenure
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Justice and meritocracy
7. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
idealist theory of education
experiential
flute
ages that Trivium should be used
8. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
ordinary language analysis
categorical imperative
philosophy of education
9. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
collective Christian mind
axiology
rhetoric
controlled transaction
10. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
goal of liberal education
pragmatism
X Generation
11. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
subjective idealism
John Dewey
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Stanley Fish
12. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Socratic method
Nicomachean Ethics
reason
Sparta
13. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Naturalist aim of education
national government
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
14. Music should be studied with a view to what?
trivium
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
a healthy Christian theism
15. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
Thomistic realism
theoretical issues
actuality
16. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
analysis
controlled transaction
undergraduate schools
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
17. 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
truth from narratives and story-telling
naturalistic cosmotogies
rejected
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
18. 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;
existentialist aesthetics
Dead White European Male
Trivium and Quadrivium
postmodernism
19. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
difference between leisure and amusement
philosophy as a subject matter
virtue
rhetoric
20. Portion of being
descriptive
actuality
experimentalist aesthetic view
organized knowledge
21. 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
happiness
local government
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
ordinary language analysis
22. Good and evil in constant battle
postmodernist aesthetics
Cosmic dualism
a subject matter and an activity
Antidosis
23. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Plato
division of controversial issues
synthetic
24. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
xenophon
Arabasis
arete
Middle Ages
25. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
existentialist aesthetics
national government
Memorabilia
descriptive
26. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
paideia
Aristotle
normative philosophy of education
Republic
27. Socrates' ultimate goal
active
hairsplitting
existentialist aesthetics
virtue
28. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
practical side (CDE pattern)
organized knowledge
religious zealots
general education
29. 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
Athens
experiential
practical side (CDE pattern)
postmodernist theory of education
30. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
Order of Trivium
Amish
naturalism
31. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
casuity
reason
Laws
truth from narratives and story-telling
32. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
philosophy
reason for sending child to public school
local government
ordinary language analysis
33. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
general education
Naturalism
epitome of postmodern person
34. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Sigmund Freud
naturalism
subjective idealism
idealist value theory
35. 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
Strict neutrality
complete moral education
Theology
36. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
naturalistic cosmotogies
Monkey Trial
Family
37. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
tradition of liberal arts education
sauromatides
religious zealots
Essence
38. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
atheistic wing of existentialism
Monkey Trial
Aristotle
general education
39. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
philosophical analysis
Experimentalist values
truth from narratives and story-telling
40. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
reason
liberal education and career training
sauromatides
metaphysics
41. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
critique of great texts of western world
Peterson
Golden Mean and habit
leaner-centered approach
42. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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43. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Thoreau
Against the Sophists
dogmatic theory
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
cognitive
Golden Mean and habit
Panathenaicus
consumerism
45. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Neil Postman
vocational training
normative
46. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
naturalistic cosmotogies
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
experimentalist aesthetic view
47. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Middle Ages
Laws
value neutrality
48. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
arete
Kant and George Berkeley
truth from narratives and story-telling
philosophical idealist
49. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
a healthy Christian theism
liberation to truth
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Sophists
50. 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
Naturalist aim of education
Nicomachean Ethics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
existentialism