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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Experimentalist view of education
multiculturalism
Aristotle
Arabasis
2. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
tradition of liberal arts education
theoretical issues
Blessing
Abraham Joshua Heschel
3. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
arete
Isocrates
Protagoras
Experimentalist values
4. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
epitome of postmodern person
naturalism
consumerism
Plato's division of human decisions
5. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Modernity
Amish
logic
goal of liberal education
6. What medievals focused on
existentialism
revelation
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Protestant Reformation
7. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
Pluralism
paideia
Herodotus
8. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Laws
famous attack of medievals
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
9. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
existentialism
idealist theory of education
maturational theories
Laws
10. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
existentialist aesthetics
a healthy Christian theism
conceptual mapping
Aristotle
11. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
quadrivium
Materialism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
hallmark of liberal arts education
12. 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
postmodernist aesthetics
critique of great texts of western world
atheistic wing of existentialism
only adequate education
13. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
analysis
revelation
multiculturalism
14. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Individual Christian mind
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Tenure
transcendential idealism
15. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
X Generation
Memorabilia
Individual Christian mind
postmodernity
16. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Aristotle
Nicocles
Modernity
subjective idealism
17. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Jacques Derrida
Materialism
Socratic method
sole true end of education
18. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Experimentalist values
active
Quadrivium
Socratic method
19. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
self-knowledge
sauromatides
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
postmodernist aesthetics
20. Capability to change in certain ways
transcendential idealism
philosophical analysis
idealist theory of education
potentiality
21. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Platonic concept of education
rhetoric
collective Christian mind
embrace them intellectually
22. 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
Plato and the arts
scholastic
Sparta
collective Christian mind
23. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
idealist metaphysics
rhetoric
Family
24. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
empirical analytics
experiential
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
25. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
Sigmund Freud
liberation to truth
collective Christian mind
26. 'What is valuable?'
Lyceum
axiology
existence precedes essence
Kant and George Berkeley
27. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
transcendential idealism
Protagoras
Platonic concept of education
28. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
pure secularism
existentialist aesthetics
29. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Abraham Lincoln
undergraduate schools
Antidosis
quadrivium
30. 'What is good?'
idealist metaphysics
Sigmund Freud
ethics
ethics and aesthetics
31. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Protagorean rationale for general education
Modernity
Plato
Postmodernity educational practice
32. 1600s; get to truth through science
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
modernity
Tenure
synthetic
33. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
Epistemology
Pluralism
Antidosis
existentialism
34. 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
Kant and George Berkeley
Athens
Plato
philosophical analysis
35. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
religious zealots
Plato's division of human decisions
fundamental part of teaching
Criticism of existentialism
36. Portion of being
Plato
actuality
Great defect in modern education
xenophon
37. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Thoreau
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
philosophical analysis
national government
38. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
theistic wing of existentialism
embrace them intellectually
axiology
39. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
metaphysics
John Dewey
ideal language analysis
metaphysics
40. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Golden Mean and habit
Naturalism
cognitive
Isocrates
41. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
reader-response theory
philosophy of education
philosophical idealist
in the home
42. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
only adequate education
subjective idealism
postmodernist theory of education
43. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Isocrates
reason for sending child to public school
Allegory of the Cave
experimentalist aesthetic view
44. 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
postmodernist theory of education
rhetoric
preciseness
linguistic descriptions
45. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Cosmic dualism
pragmatism
analytic
First Amendment activists
46. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
controlled transaction
reason for sending child to public school
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Monkey Trial
47. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
ideal language analysis
idealist value theory
vocational training
Hindu Patheism
48. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Nicocles
goal of empiricism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
existentialism
49. Encourages individual choice
Abraham Lincoln
existentialism
active
flute
50. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Latin
actuality
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