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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Euthydemus
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Blessing
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
2. Rational structure of Christian thought
flute
epitome of postmodern person
dogmatic theory
Individual Christian mind
3. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
liberal learning
tradition of liberal arts education
ethics and aesthetics
naturalistic cosmotogies
4. 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
hubris
Criticism of existentialism
practical side (CDE pattern)
Key elements of Greek education
5. 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)
Kant and George Berkeley
idealist theory of education
hairsplitting
6. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
normative philosophy of education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
worldview
particularism
7. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Dead White European Male
ethics and aesthetics
postmodernist aesthetics
subjective idealism
8. 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
Individual Christian mind
leaner-centered approach
theoretical issues
9. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
in the home
local government
Experimentalist values
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
10. 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
Neo-Platonism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Nicomachean Ethics
potentiality
11. Father of History
hubris
general education
Herodotus
normative
12. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
practical side (CDE pattern)
Order of Trivium
Xenophon
13. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Experimentalist view of education
mirror of society and critic of society
dogmatic theory
14. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
division of controversial issues
Protagorean rationale for general education
logic
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
15. Two categories of axiology
Plato's division of human decisions
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
ethics and aesthetics
ideal language analysis
16. 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
philosophy of education
Sigmund Freud
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
17. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Athens and Sparta
trivium
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
organized knowledge
18. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
arete
sauromatides
Xenophon
trivium
19. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
Allegory of the Cave
Peterson
Key elements of Greek education
20. What the medievals are criticized for
hairsplitting
reason for sending child to public school
Sparta
Athens and Sparta
21. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Postmodernity educational practice
Republic
Isocrates
liberal learning
22. 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)
liberal learning
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Republic
23. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Family
logic
theoretical issues
Criticism of existentialism
24. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
modernity
Platonic concept of education
a subject matter and an activity
liberal learning
25. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Modernity
linguistic descriptions
26. 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
Isocrates
Middle Ages
tradition of liberal arts education
Socrates
27. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
complete moral education
Allegory of the Cave
embrace them intellectually
Outmoded
28. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Jacques Derrida
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
hubris
scholastic
29. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Integrated Education
naturalistic cosmotogies
socratic method
vocational training
30. Quintessential educated medieval person
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
maturational theories
theistic wing of existentialism
scholastic
31. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
difference between leisure and amusement
Thomistic realism
philosophy of education
epitome of postmodern person
32. What medievals focused on
revelation
self-knowledge
Key elements of Greek education
Politics
33. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
happiness
Against the Sophists
Monkey Trial
34. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Xenophon
Euthydemus
synthetic
John Dewey
35. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
Panathenaicus
Sophists
experiential
Dead White European Male
36. Theoretical issues and practical issues
responsibility theory
division of controversial issues
Protagoras
pure secularism
37. How was ancient Greece divided?
Outmoded
empirical analytics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
38. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
in the home
Thoreau
Arabasis
religious zealots
39. World is an emanation of God's own being
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Euthydemus
Tenure
Neo-Platonism
40. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
sauromatides
confidence
Laws
experimentalist aesthetic view
41. 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?'
Key elements of Greek education
pragmatism
existentialism
Postmodernity educational practice
42. General ideas about education and their logical implications
theoretical issues
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
naturalism
conceptual mapping
43. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
undergraduate schools
Epicurus
preciseness
metaphysics
44. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
ethics and aesthetics
California and Texas
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Individual Christian mind
45. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Thoreau
xenophon
Cosmic dualism
46. 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
First Amendment activists
arete
Trivium and Quadrivium
maturational theories
47. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
experimentalist aesthetic view
in the home
Stanford University Students
practical issues
48. Nature of any given thing
Essence
cognitive
Pluralism
philosophy as a subject matter
49. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
idealist metaphysics
philosophical idealist
subjective idealism
analysis
50. 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
Aristotle
existentialism
liberal education and career training
transcendential idealism