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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
analytic
actuality
2. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
potentiality
Protagoras
3. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
religious zealots
metaphysics
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
idealist metaphysics
4. What Greeks mostly focused on
subjective idealism
reason
complete moral education
Isocrates
5. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Memorabilia
Zeno
vocational training
6. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Hindu Patheism
reason for sending child to public school
fundamental part of teaching
Stanley Fish
7. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
postmodernist aesthetics
experimentalist aesthetic view
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
8. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
mirror of society and critic of society
Politics
truth from narratives and story-telling
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
9. Nature of any given thing
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Essence
Leisure
Plato
10. It is a dead language
undergraduate schools
criticism of latin
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Materialism
11. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Experimentalist view of education
truth from narratives and story-telling
metaphysics
fundamental part of teaching
12. List of works that have always been studied
Isocrates
Canon
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Naturalist aim of education
13. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Panathenaicus
Protestant Reformation
analytic
rhetoric
14. Two main philosophers of idealism
existentialism
Kant and George Berkeley
Protagorean rationale for general education
up
15. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
philosophy
vocational training
embrace them intellectually
Plato and the arts
16. Philosophy is both...?
embrace them intellectually
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
a subject matter and an activity
liberal learning
17. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
analytic
Materialism
Protagorean rationale for general education
rhetoric
18. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Criticism of existentialism
Order of Trivium
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Strict neutrality
19. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
Tolkein approach
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Euthydemus
20. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
naturalistic cosmotogies
hairsplitting
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
embrace them intellectually
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
conceptual mapping
Modernity
Order of Trivium
particularism
22. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Individual Christian mind
logic
embrace them intellectually
Integrated Education
23. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Plato's division of human decisions
Naturalist aim of education
empiricism
casuity
24. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
state
flute
innoculation method
Nicocles
25. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Protestant Reformation
Abraham Lincoln
ethics
Justice and meritocracy
26. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
organized knowledge
normative
ethics and aesthetics
Epistemology
27. Father of History
existentialism
Herodotus
active
flute
28. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
ordinary language analysis
controlled transaction
existentialism
29. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Criticism of existentialism
Arabasis
paideia
Middle Ages
30. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
happiness
Individual Christian mind
Epicurus
idealist theory of education
31. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Key elements of Greek education
cognitive-stage theories
a healthy Christian theism
worldview
32. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
modernity
postmodernist theory of education
transcendential idealism
undergraduate schools
33. Technology is not always a __________.
Lyceum
Blessing
trivium
Platonic concept of education
34. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Lyceum
postmodernist theory of education
analysis
noetic powers
35. Consisted of subjects
Arabasis
Canon
Athens and Sparta
Quadrivium
36. Stress self-expression
maturational theories
Socrates
Tenure
Zeno
37. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
only adequate education
Individual Christian mind
undergraduate schools
38. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
Isocrates
postermodernist literary ideas
noetic powers
39. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
hubris
empiricism
Peterson
Thomistic realism
40. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
worldview
existentialism
philosophy
xenophon
41. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Dead White European Male
postermodernist literary ideas
California and Texas
logic
42. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
philosophical analysis
trivium
Memorabilia
synthetic
43. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
California and Texas
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
paideia
national government
44. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Hellenica
Epistemology
Neo-Platonism
45. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Stanley Fish
metaphysics
Socratic method
socratic method
46. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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47. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Protagoras
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Socrates
truth from narratives and story-telling
48. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
existentialism
happiness
empirical analytics
49. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
existentialism
Sparta
truth from narratives and story-telling
50. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
theoretical issues
trivium
Individual Christian mind
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