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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
categorical imperative
Naturalism
cognitive
Isocrates
2. 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
local government
Leisure
in the home
3. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
happiness
Canon
normative
logic
4. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
Laws
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Isocrates
5. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
theistic wing of existentialism
famous attack of medievals
dogmatic theory
6. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Naturalism
John Dewey
Canon
confidence
7. Kant's general form of moral law
experiential
complete moral education
categorical imperative
postermodernist literary ideas
8. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
naturalistic cosmotogies
potentiality
dogmatic theory
Herodotus
9. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Protestant Reformation
Zeno
Great defect in modern education
10. 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
religious zealots
analytic philosophy
active
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
11. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
California and Texas
X Generation
experiential
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
12. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Key elements of Greek education
xenophon
Experimentalist view of education
Neil Postman
13. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Epicurus
metaphysics
Experimentalist values
a subject matter and an activity
14. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
reason for sending child to public school
ideal language analysis
rhetoric
15. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
philosophical idealist
innoculation method
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
16. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Nicomachean Ethics
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Aristotle
17. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
mirror of society and critic of society
Xenophon
Individual Christian mind
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
18. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Aristotle
Trivium and Quadrivium
pure secularism
hubris
19. What is the building block of civilization?
hallmark of liberal arts education
Family
innoculation method
Stanley Fish
20. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
Antidosis
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Tolkein approach
21. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealist metaphysics
Athens
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Sir Francis Bacon
22. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Experimentalist view of education
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Allegory of the Cave
Dorian music
23. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
goal of empiricism
xenophon
practical issues
24. What Greeks mostly focused on
Canon
Plato and the arts
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
reason
25. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
goal of liberal education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Trivium and Quadrivium
naturalism
26. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
linguistic descriptions
descriptive
state
Stanley Fish
27. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
ordinary language analysis
Modernity
existentialist view of education
form
28. 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
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Politics
Postmodernity educational practice
trivium
29. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
liberal learning
Latin
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Abraham Lincoln
30. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
embrace them intellectually
truth from narratives and story-telling
Key elements of Greek education
31. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
Postmodernity educational practice
dialectic
Trivium and Quadrivium
pragmatism
32. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Experimentalist view of education
Leisure
famous attack of medievals
Protestant Reformation
33. Most famous multiculturalist project
Latin
pragmatism
critique of great texts of western world
axiology
34. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
philosophy as a subject matter
vocational training
Order of Trivium
Liberally educated person
35. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Socrates
Neil Postman
ages that Trivium should be used
division of controversial issues
36. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
transcendential idealism
Politics
vocational training
Hellenica
37. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
tradition of liberal arts education
noetic powers
Modernity
trivium
38. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
organized knowledge
Justice and meritocracy
flute
philosophy of education
39. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
quadrivium
Sparta
Aristotle
40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
practical side (CDE pattern)
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Jacques Derrida
quadrivium
41. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
Golden Mean and habit
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
state
42. What was created to protect academic freedom?
epitome of postmodern person
empiricism
Tenure
local government
43. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
Protagoras
philosophical analysis
general education
44. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
goal of empiricism
Neil Postman
Golden Mean and habit
45. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
state
liberation to truth
linguistic descriptions
46. Socrates' ultimate goal
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
philosophy of education
virtue
47. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
practical side (CDE pattern)
xenophon
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Sir Francis Bacon
48. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
categorical imperative
state
Order of Trivium
49. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Herodotus
Naturalist aim of education
ethics and aesthetics
50. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
Materialism
aesthetics
Plato's division of human decisions