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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Amish
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
responsibility theory
Tolkein approach
2. 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
undergraduate schools
Euthydemus
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Individual Christian mind
3. 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
philosophical idealist
analysis
postmodernist aesthetics
Antidosis
4. What the medievals are criticized for
experiential
California and Texas
national government
hairsplitting
5. Learning is...
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
general education
active
self-knowledge
6. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Euthydemus
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
goal of liberal education
postmodernist theory of education
7. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
idealist metaphysics
Golden Mean and habit
naturalistic cosmotogies
Materialism
8. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Socratic method
analytic
reason for sending child to public school
Middle Ages
9. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Quadrivium
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Athens and Sparta
10. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
state
Arabasis
confidence
flute
11. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Essence
Socratic method
Strict neutrality
12. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
Middle Ages
Strict neutrality
Herodotus
13. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
ages that Trivium should be used
X Generation
pragmatism
Athens and Sparta
14. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
only adequate education
Hellenica
Jacques Derrida
15. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
Essence
existentialism
X Generation
Republic
16. Stress self-expression
general education
Protestant Reformation
maturational theories
idealist value theory
17. 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
flute
categorical imperative
goal of liberal education
18. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
philosophical idealist
Individual Christian mind
modernity
19. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
Theology
Experimentalist aesthetics
ordinary language analysis
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
20. Rational structure of Christian thought
Epicurus
dogmatic theory
theoretical issues
leaner-centered approach
21. Portion of being
actuality
synthetic
postmodernist theory of education
Quadrivium
22. What medievals focused on
critique of great texts of western world
socratic method
revelation
Jacques Derrida
23. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Zeno
goal of liberal education
transcendential idealism
revelation
24. 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
logic
Herodotus
postmodernist theory of education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
25. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
empirical analytics
paideia
Stanley Fish
26. Concept of the beautiful
categorical imperative
Protagoras
socialization theories
aesthetics
27. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
criticism of latin
practical issues
28. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
philosophical idealist
normative philosophy of education
Naturalist aim of education
socialization theories
29. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Tenure
a healthy Christian theism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
30. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
cognitive
preciseness
Hindu Patheism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
31. 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
mirror of society and critic of society
practical side (CDE pattern)
only adequate education
Nicocles
32. 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
criticism of latin
Justice and meritocracy
Quadrivium
Laws
33. 'What is valuable?'
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
noetic powers
axiology
scholastic
34. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Integrated Education
analytic
Stanford University Students
Against the Sophists
35. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
socialization theories
truth from narratives and story-telling
Modernity
36. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Laws
Family
Monkey Trial
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
37. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
local government
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
national government
38. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
X Generation
epitome of postmodern person
Dorian music
Justice and meritocracy
39. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Sophists
actuality
dialectic
confidence
40. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
hairsplitting
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
First Amendment activists
Naturalist aim of education
41. 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
Euthydemus
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
linguistic descriptions
Isocrates
42. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
embrace them intellectually
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
socratic method
43. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
scholastic
analysis
dogmatic theory
categorical imperative
44. It is a dead language
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
atheistic wing of existentialism
criticism of latin
practical side (CDE pattern)
45. Two categories of axiology
Thracians
a subject matter and an activity
criticism of latin
ethics and aesthetics
46. 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
innoculation method
Pluralism
Socratic method
virtue
47. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
rhetoric
cultural literacy
religious zealots
48. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
Stanford University Students
Protagoras
linguistic descriptions
general education
49. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Order of Trivium
Aristotle
hallmark of liberal arts education
experiential
50. Experience is reality; activity-based
Key elements of Greek education
truth from narratives and story-telling
pragmatism
Tenure