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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
hairsplitting
Golden Mean and habit
Thomistic realism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
2. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
categorical imperative
criticism of latin
Nicocles
Memorabilia
3. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
rejected
existentialism
synthetic
Athens
4. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
atheistic wing of existentialism
Socrates
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
tradition of liberal arts education
5. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
liberation to truth
California and Texas
in the home
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
6. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
rhetoric
only adequate education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
7. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
ages that Trivium should be used
Epistemology
particularism
atheistic wing of existentialism
8. Consisted of subjects
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
self-knowledge
Quadrivium
Plato
9. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Epistemology
Monkey Trial
Modernity
complete moral education
10. Most famous multiculturalist project
Canon
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
worldview
critique of great texts of western world
11. What the medievals are criticized for
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
hairsplitting
Trivium and Quadrivium
12. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Nicomachean Ethics
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
goal of liberal education
Panathenaicus
13. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Xenophon
embrace them intellectually
rhetoric
Experimentalist aesthetics
14. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
casuity
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
national government
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
15. 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
fundamental part of teaching
up
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
16. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
epitome of postmodern person
experiential
preciseness
postmodernism
17. 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
innoculation method
mirror of society and critic of society
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
18. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
existentialism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Stanford University Students
up
19. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
fundamental part of teaching
trivium
up
Materialism
20. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
ideal language analysis
Sir Francis Bacon
pure secularism
value neutrality
21. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Epicurus
Abraham Lincoln
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Liberally educated person
22. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Kant and George Berkeley
arete
Modernity
Laws
23. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socratic method
only adequate education
socialization theories
dogmatic theory
24. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
postmodernist aesthetics
general education
conceptual mapping
ages that Trivium should be used
25. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
synthetic
Liberally educated person
Nicocles
a healthy Christian theism
26. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
naturalistic cosmotogies
normative
empirical analytics
27. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
Aristotle
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
philosophy as a subject matter
analytic philosophy
28. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
axiology
hallmark of liberal arts education
pragmatism
paideia
29. Kant's general form of moral law
a subject matter and an activity
categorical imperative
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Experimentalist view of education
30. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
philosophical idealist
active
Tolkein approach
Aristotle
31. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Protagoras
Integrated Education
metaphysics
Thoreau
32. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
sauromatides
Tenure
existentialist aesthetics
Latin
33. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Against the Sophists
Memorabilia
Plato
postermodernist literary ideas
34. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Politics
a healthy Christian theism
35. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Tenure
Protagoras
36. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Euthydemus
potentiality
local government
Cosmic dualism
37. Martin Luther; John Calvin
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Latin
Middle Ages
Protestant Reformation
38. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
truth from narratives and story-telling
existentialism
Jacques Derrida
39. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
epitome of postmodern person
pragmatism
Platonic concept of education
Hindu Patheism
40. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
descriptive
existentialism
only adequate education
existentialist view of education
41. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Zeno
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophy of education
Modernity
42. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
complete moral education
Epicurus
Laws
cultural literacy
43. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
philosophical analysis
logic
multiculturalism
44. Learning is...
ages that Trivium should be used
active
reader-response theory
organized knowledge
45. Capability to change in certain ways
sole true end of education
potentiality
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Socratic method
46. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
quadrivium
undergraduate schools
national government
general education
47. 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
Politics
Abraham Lincoln
undergraduate schools
48. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Stanford University Students
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
goal of empiricism
Individual Christian mind
49. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
empiricism
Xenophon
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
famous attack of medievals
50. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
Quadrivium
Plato
Hellenica
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