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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Abraham Lincoln
cognitive
existentialist aesthetics
Plato
2. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
postermodernist literary ideas
hairsplitting
famous attack of medievals
linguistic descriptions
3. Nature of any given thing
Essence
ages that Trivium should be used
cultural literacy
arete
4. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
Sigmund Freud
Athens
Politics
5. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
ethics
liberal learning
Isocrates
Epicurus
6. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Neo-Platonism
flute
Epistemology
7. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
dialectic
vocational training
pragmatism
Socratic method
8. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
philosophy
idealist theory of education
First Amendment activists
metaphysics
9. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
cognitive-stage theories
idealist value theory
Republic
10. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
ideal language analysis
sauromatides
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
11. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Theology
aesthetics
organized knowledge
experimentalist aesthetic view
12. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Peterson
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
dogmatic theory
revelation
13. List of works that have always been studied
fundamental part of teaching
Canon
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Latin
14. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Aristotle
pragmatism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
15. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Nicomachean Ethics
idealist theory of education
consumerism
multiculturalism
16. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
general education
axiology
Materialism
17. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
Aristotle
axiology
Abraham Lincoln
18. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
paideia
Plato's division of human decisions
pragmatism
reason for sending child to public school
19. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
pure secularism
postmodernist theory of education
Amish
Isocrates
20. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
dialectic
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
rejected
21. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Modernity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
value neutrality
Protestant Reformation
22. What the medievals are criticized for
trivium
hairsplitting
Modernity
Plato
23. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Family
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
state
Naturalism
24. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Thomistic realism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
in the home
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
25. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Socratic method
existentialist aesthetics
tradition of liberal arts education
Pluralism
26. Learning is...
religious zealots
Epistemology
Experimentalist values
active
27. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
idealist theory of education
Abraham Lincoln
Naturalist aim of education
Epistemology
28. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Trivium and Quadrivium
theoretical issues
Criticism of existentialism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
29. Quintessential educated medieval person
Nicomachean Ethics
quadrivium
scholastic
confidence
30. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Cosmic dualism
Leisure
Socratic method
existentialist aesthetics
31. 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
Monkey Trial
Great defect in modern education
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
32. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
First Amendment activists
philosophy as a subject matter
Sir Francis Bacon
33. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Great defect in modern education
postermodernist literary ideas
normative
trivium
34. Started naturalism
ages that Trivium should be used
Sir Francis Bacon
flute
Blessing
35. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
flute
Postmodernity educational practice
potentiality
36. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Canon
descriptive
Aristotle
Abraham Lincoln
37. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
up
general education
Thomistic realism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Herodotus
existentialism
39. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
collective Christian mind
a subject matter and an activity
logic
40. 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
Abraham Lincoln
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Athens
religious zealots
41. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
criticism of latin
Materialism
Zeno
axiology
42. 'What is good?'
Aristotle
collective Christian mind
theoretical issues
ethics
43. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
dogmatic theory
rejected
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
theoretical issues
44. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
cognitive-stage theories
Sigmund Freud
casuity
45. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
leaner-centered approach
Plato's division of human decisions
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
reader-response theory
46. 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
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Epicurus
Experimentalist values
Antidosis
47. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
philosophy of education
Allegory of the Cave
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
48. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Postmodernity educational practice
only adequate education
Laws
Experimentalist view of education
49. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
paideia
fundamental part of teaching
dialectic
50. 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
Athens
Isocrates
form
Dead White European Male