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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Trivium and Quadrivium
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
virtue
up
2. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Essence
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
transcendential idealism
postmodernism
3. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
Abraham Lincoln
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Protestant Reformation
4. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Theology
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
aesthetics
mirror of society and critic of society
5. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
normative
Tolkein approach
Kant and George Berkeley
Integrated Education
6. 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
idealist theory of education
tradition of liberal arts education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Aristotle
7. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
maturational theories
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
liberal education and career training
descriptive
8. Use women more as slaves
Thracians
Key elements of Greek education
Liberally educated person
Isocrates
9. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Dorian music
complete moral education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Isocrates
10. World is permeated by divine essence
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Republic
Hindu Patheism
division of controversial issues
11. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
Euthydemus
general education
Arabasis
12. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Plato
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Laws
Aristotle
13. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Latin
Allegory of the Cave
analytic philosophy
14. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
rhetoric
Jacques Derrida
postmodernist aesthetics
postmodernism
15. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
practical side (CDE pattern)
California and Texas
Socrates
logic
16. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
goal of liberal education
xenophon
Nicocles
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
17. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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18. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Isocrates
Abraham Lincoln
Individual Christian mind
19. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
existentialism
axiology
Abraham Lincoln
20. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Experimentalist values
modernity
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
xenophon
21. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Isocrates
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
subjective idealism
Jacques Derrida
22. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
Experimentalist view of education
postmodernity
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
23. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
worldview
Laws
Republic
vocational training
24. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
vocational training
paideia
Sigmund Freud
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
25. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
a healthy Christian theism
collective Christian mind
truth from narratives and story-telling
26. 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
theoretical issues
Aristotle
Panathenaicus
paideia
27. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
a healthy Christian theism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
hallmark of liberal arts education
28. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
naturalistic cosmotogies
famous attack of medievals
scholastic
29. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
a subject matter and an activity
Naturalism vs. Christianity
noetic powers
practical side (CDE pattern)
30. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Herodotus
sauromatides
leaner-centered approach
conceptual mapping
31. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
rhetoric
value neutrality
normative philosophy of education
32. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Essence
self-knowledge
innoculation method
Postmodernity educational practice
33. Academic freedom does not mean _______
revelation
national government
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Strict neutrality
34. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
metaphysics
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
socialization theories
pragmatism
35. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Middle Ages
Naturalism
Tenure
John Dewey
36. 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
Against the Sophists
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
multiculturalism
reason for sending child to public school
37. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Experimentalist view of education
analysis
liberal education and career training
paideia
38. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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39. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
descriptive
Aristotle
actuality
40. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
socialization theories
Naturalism
pragmatism
a healthy Christian theism
41. 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)
Tolkein approach
Hellenica
casuity
42. 'What is good?'
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
transcendential idealism
Aristotle
ethics
43. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
postmodernist theory of education
Isocrates
Zeno
Kant and George Berkeley
44. Started naturalism
Nicocles
philosophical analysis
analysis
Sir Francis Bacon
45. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Laws
worldview
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
theoretical issues
46. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
Plato and the arts
Sir Francis Bacon
goal of liberal education
reader-response theory
47. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Herodotus
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Quadrivium
innoculation method
48. 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
value neutrality
Individual Christian mind
Republic
maturational theories
49. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Neil Postman
Isocrates
Quadrivium
Outmoded
50. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
rhetoric
ethics and aesthetics