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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
form
Abraham Lincoln
Sophists
cultural literacy
2. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Socrates
form
responsibility theory
Experimentalist aesthetics
3. Use women more as slaves
Thracians
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
existence precedes essence
Essence
4. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
X Generation
categorical imperative
leaner-centered approach
difference between leisure and amusement
5. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
logic
innoculation method
Panathenaicus
6. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
leaner-centered approach
matter
empirical analytics
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
7. 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)
Experimentalist values
Family
aesthetics
8. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
dialectic
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
pragmatism
John Dewey
9. Quintessential educated medieval person
general education
scholastic
Kant and George Berkeley
Nicomachean Ethics
10. What the medievals are criticized for
Plato
flute
hairsplitting
matter
11. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Amish
Hellenica
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
ordinary language analysis
12. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Plato's division of human decisions
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Politics
Platonic concept of education
13. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
First Amendment activists
analysis
Plato's division of human decisions
synthetic
14. 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
cognitive
existentialism
Trivium and Quadrivium
15. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
goal of liberal education
happiness
cognitive-stage theories
Trivium and Quadrivium
16. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
casuity
postermodernist literary ideas
Abraham Joshua Heschel
17. 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
Athens
self-knowledge
division of controversial issues
general education
18. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
confidence
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Experimentalist aesthetics
Plato
19. 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
aesthetics
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Sigmund Freud
Tolkein approach
20. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
collective Christian mind
critique of great texts of western world
Memorabilia
21. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
pragmatism
First Amendment activists
Order of Trivium
22. One that shapes the whole person
descriptive
only adequate education
liberation to truth
analytic philosophy
23. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
scholastic
Protestant Reformation
analysis
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
24. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
division of controversial issues
Aristotle
existentialism
Key elements of Greek education
25. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
ordinary language analysis
Epicurus
analysis
modernity
26. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Leisure
preciseness
Quadrivium
27. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
scholastic
Aristotle
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
flute
28. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
empiricism
Tolkein approach
Arabasis
29. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
Protagorean rationale for general education
Quadrivium
mirror of society and critic of society
30. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Strict neutrality
philosophy of education
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Middle Ages
31. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
metaphysics
John Dewey
naturalistic cosmotogies
socialization theories
32. To teach men how to learn for themselves
normative
Jacques Derrida
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
sole true end of education
33. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
idealist theory of education
sole true end of education
paideia
Panathenaicus
34. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Isocrates
reason for sending child to public school
Sigmund Freud
ages that Trivium should be used
35. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
Middle Ages
Modernity
goal of empiricism
36. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Sparta
modernity
Naturalism
Latin
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
local government
famous attack of medievals
postmodernist theory of education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
38. Knowledge most worth having
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
self-knowledge
conceptual mapping
state
39. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Justice and meritocracy
normative
empirical analytics
Liberally educated person
40. Children born from 1981-1999
Xenophon
epitome of postmodern person
normative
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
41. 1600s; get to truth through science
sole true end of education
aesthetics
descriptive
modernity
42. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
practical side (CDE pattern)
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
worldview
43. General ideas about education and their logical implications
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
theoretical issues
Laws
conceptual mapping
44. Music should be studied with a view to what?
trivium
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
virtue
Athens and Sparta
45. Categories of philosophy as an activity
descriptive
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Naturalism vs. Christianity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
46. 'Man is the measure of all things'
existentialist aesthetics
naturalism
critique of great texts of western world
Protagoras
47. 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
subjective idealism
organized knowledge
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Latin
48. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
casuity
noetic powers
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Isocrates
49. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
socialization theories
liberation to truth
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
axiology
50. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Family
X Generation
casuity