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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Sparta
experimentalist aesthetic view
Experimentalist view of education
dialectic
2. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Athens
ethics
analytic
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
3. Kant's general form of moral law
revelation
categorical imperative
Latin
postmodernity
4. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Hindu Patheism
metaphysics
postmodernist theory of education
active
5. 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?'
Order of Trivium
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Key elements of Greek education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
6. 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)
Thracians
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Aristotle
7. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
collective Christian mind
Jacques Derrida
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
ethics and aesthetics
8. Philosophy is both...?
axiology
Integrated Education
a subject matter and an activity
cognitive
9. Consisted of subjects
embrace them intellectually
ideal language analysis
Quadrivium
active
10. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
ideal language analysis
Great defect in modern education
naturalism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
11. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
arete
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Sigmund Freud
12. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Republic
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Integrated Education
13. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy of education
trivium
maturational theories
14. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Thoreau
Stanford University Students
philosophy of education
worldview
15. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
up
normative
existentialism
16. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Politics
Protagoras
hubris
17. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Naturalist aim of education
liberal education and career training
conceptual mapping
national government
18. 'What is valuable?'
matter
potentiality
axiology
noetic powers
19. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Republic
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Memorabilia
scholastic
20. Knowledge most worth having
a subject matter and an activity
self-knowledge
idealist metaphysics
embrace them intellectually
21. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
goal of empiricism
postmodernist theory of education
Nicomachean Ethics
maturational theories
22. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Monkey Trial
Herodotus
quadrivium
23. Started naturalism
Socratic method
Sir Francis Bacon
collective Christian mind
Liberally educated person
24. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
cognitive-stage theories
division of controversial issues
truth from narratives and story-telling
logic
25. General ideas about education and their logical implications
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
philosophy as a subject matter
theoretical issues
26. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Aristotle
Blessing
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Latin
27. What medievals focused on
revelation
Aristotle
transcendential idealism
Herodotus
28. What was created to protect academic freedom?
existence precedes essence
Tenure
socialization theories
Naturalist aim of education
29. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
ethics and aesthetics
undergraduate schools
collective Christian mind
30. 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
postmodernism
Aristotle
hairsplitting
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
31. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Against the Sophists
trivium
self-knowledge
liberal education and career training
32. 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
Cosmic dualism
Naturalist aim of education
aesthetics
ordinary language analysis
33. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
Abraham Lincoln
Sparta
hubris
naturalism
34. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Antidosis
quadrivium
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
35. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Abraham Lincoln
Thomistic realism
Stanley Fish
36. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
liberation to truth
reason for sending child to public school
reader-response theory
37. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
Epistemology
criticism of latin
Abraham Lincoln
38. 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
worldview
Socratic method
Nicocles
dogmatic theory
39. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
X Generation
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Experimentalist values
40. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
normative
existence precedes essence
Protestant Reformation
41. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
Dorian music
active
Protestant Reformation
42. Portion of being
actuality
Thoreau
Blessing
trivium
43. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
local government
noetic powers
form
atheistic wing of existentialism
44. Encourages individual choice
Isocrates
noetic powers
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
existentialism
45. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Protagorean rationale for general education
hairsplitting
flute
Protagoras
46. 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
analysis
metaphysics
analytic philosophy
normative philosophy of education
47. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ethics and aesthetics
ages that Trivium should be used
existentialism
epitome of postmodern person
48. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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49. 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
Against the Sophists
Athens
Sir Francis Bacon
Athens and Sparta
50. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
noetic powers
religious zealots
Peterson
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
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