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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
Plato and the arts
Laws
Trivium and Quadrivium
Experimentalist values
2. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Aristotle
liberation to truth
analysis
descriptive
3. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
experiential
famous attack of medievals
4. Started naturalism
sauromatides
Sir Francis Bacon
axiology
normative philosophy of education
5. World is permeated by divine essence
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
fundamental part of teaching
Hindu Patheism
X Generation
6. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
Key elements of Greek education
responsibility theory
Dead White European Male
7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Naturalist aim of education
Hindu Patheism
Quadrivium
socialization theories
8. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Protestant Reformation
noetic powers
fundamental part of teaching
Isocrates
9. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
linguistic descriptions
actuality
empirical analytics
10. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Key elements of Greek education
state
Aristotle
mirror of society and critic of society
11. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
Modernity
Plato's division of human decisions
Sparta
12. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Theology
practical side (CDE pattern)
empiricism
Protagoras
13. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
Laws
Materialism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Experimentalist aesthetics
14. 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
hubris
metaphysics
Latin
theistic wing of existentialism
15. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
theoretical issues
Individual Christian mind
postmodernity
ages that Trivium should be used
16. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Strict neutrality
pure secularism
postmodernity
Stanley Fish
17. 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
Socrates
maturational theories
rejected
difference between leisure and amusement
18. Use women more as slaves
happiness
Thracians
embrace them intellectually
actuality
19. 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
experimentalist aesthetic view
Latin
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
20. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
naturalistic cosmotogies
Republic
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
actuality
21. Two categories of axiology
theistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
ethics and aesthetics
22. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Tenure
Nicomachean Ethics
experiential
xenophon
23. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
subjective idealism
philosophy as a subject matter
tradition of liberal arts education
24. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
socratic method
Integrated Education
quadrivium
Antidosis
25. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Canon
metaphysics
Lyceum
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
26. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
analytic
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
postmodernist aesthetics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
27. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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28. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Aristotle
truth from narratives and story-telling
theoretical issues
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
29. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
rejected
Protagoras
postmodernism
30. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Integrated Education
hubris
Plato
Panathenaicus
31. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Abraham Lincoln
sauromatides
value neutrality
Key elements of Greek education
32. Good and evil in constant battle
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Cosmic dualism
ethics and aesthetics
Postmodernity educational practice
33. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Monkey Trial
existentialist view of education
general education
Naturalist aim of education
34. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
collective Christian mind
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Athens
subjective idealism
35. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
hairsplitting
Thoreau
36. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
local government
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Individual Christian mind
Plato
37. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
Kant and George Berkeley
subjective idealism
embrace them intellectually
38. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
worldview
Order of Trivium
in the home
Protagorean rationale for general education
39. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
arete
conceptual mapping
ethics
pure secularism
40. How was ancient Greece divided?
idealist metaphysics
philosophical analysis
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
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)
Latin
critique of great texts of western world
hallmark of liberal arts education
42. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
goal of empiricism
Peterson
empirical analytics
ideal language analysis
43. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Theology
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
idealist theory of education
Xenophon
44. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
difference between leisure and amusement
quadrivium
Quadrivium
existentialist view of education
45. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Aristotle
paideia
Materialism
46. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Arabasis
Dorian music
First Amendment activists
Isocrates
47. 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
self-knowledge
Quadrivium
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Athens
48. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
normative
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Lincoln
Laws
49. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Aristotle
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
embrace them intellectually
Republic
50. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Socratic method
epitome of postmodern person
dialectic
Euthydemus