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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Pluralism
Naturalist aim of education
Isocrates
reason for sending child to public school
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
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
pragmatism
Nicocles
Modernity
3. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
fundamental part of teaching
Golden Mean and habit
Zeno
Tenure
4. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
linguistic descriptions
hairsplitting
paideia
rejected
5. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
cognitive
pure secularism
Outmoded
Criticism of existentialism
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
trivium
Euthydemus
postmodernist aesthetics
Naturalism vs. Christianity
7. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
conceptual mapping
Great defect in modern education
pragmatism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
8. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
modernity
scholastic
Sigmund Freud
Integrated Education
9. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
atheistic wing of existentialism
rhetoric
reason for sending child to public school
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
10. 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
philosophy as a subject matter
normative philosophy of education
religious zealots
difference between leisure and amusement
11. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
experiential
Nicocles
empiricism
12. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
famous attack of medievals
religious zealots
pragmatism
Republic
13. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
Blessing
rhetoric
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
14. 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
Naturalism vs. Christianity
reason for sending child to public school
idealist theory of education
existentialism
15. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
paideia
particularism
Athens
analysis
16. Rational structure of Christian thought
metaphysics
Allegory of the Cave
leaner-centered approach
dogmatic theory
17. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
Memorabilia
atheistic wing of existentialism
practical side (CDE pattern)
ordinary language analysis
18. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
postermodernist literary ideas
innoculation method
Xenophon
ethics and aesthetics
19. Nature of any given thing
Pluralism
categorical imperative
active
Essence
20. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
subjective idealism
hallmark of liberal arts education
philosophy of education
normative
21. Learning is...
subjective idealism
philosophy as a subject matter
Naturalism vs. Christianity
active
22. List of works that have always been studied
Canon
categorical imperative
sole true end of education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
23. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Blessing
metaphysics
critique of great texts of western world
Protagoras
24. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
conceptual mapping
practical issues
controlled transaction
religious zealots
25. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
general education
rhetoric
26. Portion of being
Isocrates
truth from narratives and story-telling
actuality
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
27. Knowledge most worth having
Republic
rejected
self-knowledge
Platonic concept of education
28. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Outmoded
Epicurus
Pluralism
vocational training
29. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
theistic wing of existentialism
only adequate education
logic
philosophy
30. One that shapes the whole person
multiculturalism
flute
only adequate education
empirical analytics
31. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Herodotus
confidence
rejected
pure secularism
32. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Abraham Lincoln
Panathenaicus
33. 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
maturational theories
multiculturalism
Aristotle
idealist value theory
34. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
Protagorean rationale for general education
up
Aristotle
organized knowledge
35. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Plato
truth from narratives and story-telling
Against the Sophists
theoretical issues
36. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Modernity
Plato
Dorian music
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
37. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
scholastic
Republic
Aristotle
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
38. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
transcendential idealism
First Amendment activists
Jacques Derrida
39. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
fundamental part of teaching
Cosmic dualism
existentialist aesthetics
40. 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
conceptual mapping
Monkey Trial
Great defect in modern education
Antidosis
41. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Socratic method
preciseness
Dorian music
dialectic
42. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Protagoras
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
analysis
famous attack of medievals
43. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
socratic method
Politics
responsibility theory
only adequate education
44. 1600s; get to truth through science
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Nicomachean Ethics
modernity
45. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
epitome of postmodern person
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Blessing
idealist metaphysics
46. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Plato
goal of empiricism
scholastic
Experimentalist view of education
47. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
complete moral education
Amish
confidence
48. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Xenophon
pure secularism
practical side (CDE pattern)
49. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
practical side (CDE pattern)
postmodernist aesthetics
Peterson
Plato and the arts
50. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
mirror of society and critic of society
Isocrates
Memorabilia