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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
theoretical issues
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
division of controversial issues
casuity
2. 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
Aristotle
actuality
Antidosis
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
3. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
organized knowledge
flute
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Middle Ages
4. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
active
Kant and George Berkeley
particularism
Thracians
5. What is the building block of civilization?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Family
Tenure
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
6. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
First Amendment activists
practical issues
transcendential idealism
paideia
7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
rejected
socialization theories
Sophists
experimentalist aesthetic view
8. Two main philosophers of idealism
Naturalist aim of education
Thomistic realism
analysis
Kant and George Berkeley
9. Father of History
ordinary language analysis
Great defect in modern education
Herodotus
axiology
10. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
existentialism
value neutrality
controlled transaction
11. Socrates' ultimate goal
Athens
metaphysics
virtue
linguistic descriptions
12. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
division of controversial issues
experimentalist aesthetic view
trivium
reason for sending child to public school
13. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Zeno
Theology
categorical imperative
analytic
14. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
flute
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Zeno
Stanley Fish
15. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
Amish
embrace them intellectually
analytic
16. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
naturalism
state
California and Texas
17. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
religious zealots
hairsplitting
paideia
18. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
analysis
up
Euthydemus
19. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Materialism
Peterson
atheistic wing of existentialism
Hindu Patheism
20. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
normative philosophy of education
dialectic
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Canon
21. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Thoreau
Postmodernity educational practice
trivium
postermodernist literary ideas
22. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
analytic philosophy
Euthydemus
Pluralism
national government
23. What the medievals are criticized for
Plato and the arts
logic
hairsplitting
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
24. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
modernity
Aristotle
vocational training
postermodernist literary ideas
25. Learning is...
preciseness
active
Justice and meritocracy
Euthydemus
26. Experience is reality; activity-based
postmodernist aesthetics
pragmatism
controlled transaction
Plato
27. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
conceptual mapping
Platonic concept of education
a healthy Christian theism
Herodotus
28. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
John Dewey
naturalistic cosmotogies
aesthetics
Protagoras
29. Two categories of axiology
Canon
ethics and aesthetics
general education
existence precedes essence
30. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
naturalism
fundamental part of teaching
31. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
Monkey Trial
Panathenaicus
theistic wing of existentialism
Materialism
32. The 'love of wisdom'
philosophy
sauromatides
empiricism
embrace them intellectually
33. Experimentalist students are to be both:
paideia
mirror of society and critic of society
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy of education
34. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
organized knowledge
Protagoras
Sparta
35. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Laws
descriptive
subjective idealism
famous attack of medievals
36. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
cognitive-stage theories
Golden Mean and habit
idealist metaphysics
37. 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
Peterson
Naturalist aim of education
postmodernism
38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
existentialism
postermodernist literary ideas
postmodernist aesthetics
39. World is an emanation of God's own being
Aristotle
quadrivium
socratic method
Neo-Platonism
40. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Allegory of the Cave
fundamental part of teaching
practical side (CDE pattern)
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
41. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
analysis
Order of Trivium
value neutrality
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
42. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
preciseness
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Protagorean rationale for general education
Middle Ages
43. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Great defect in modern education
Abraham Joshua Heschel
44. 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
liberation to truth
a healthy Christian theism
quadrivium
45. 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
postmodernism
metaphysics
Middle Ages
active
46. Technology is not always a __________.
hubris
Blessing
casuity
difference between leisure and amusement
47. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Neo-Platonism
metaphysics
Plato and the arts
liberation to truth
48. 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
axiology
Against the Sophists
particularism
49. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
pure secularism
Politics
normative
50. 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
Hellenica
modernity
atheistic wing of existentialism
logic
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