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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
tradition of liberal arts education
particularism
Plato
Experimentalist aesthetics
2. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
empiricism
Tenure
experiential
flute
3. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
preciseness
hubris
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Nicomachean Ethics
4. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Republic
logic
X Generation
Dorian music
5. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
practical issues
potentiality
collective Christian mind
preciseness
6. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
fundamental part of teaching
analysis
postermodernist literary ideas
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
7. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Experimentalist view of education
national government
Aristotle
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
8. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
controlled transaction
California and Texas
conceptual mapping
Monkey Trial
9. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Quadrivium
Thracians
Protagoras
worldview
10. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
casuity
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
logic
11. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
postmodernity
form
axiology
consumerism
12. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Experimentalist view of education
normative philosophy of education
general education
13. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
potentiality
First Amendment activists
Great defect in modern education
theistic wing of existentialism
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
value neutrality
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Tenure
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
15. 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
Stanford University Students
Socratic method
Nicomachean Ethics
Middle Ages
16. Children born from 1981-1999
Isocrates
Dead White European Male
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Tolkein approach
17. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
ordinary language analysis
active
Plato and the arts
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
18. 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
undergraduate schools
rejected
Order of Trivium
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
19. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Cosmic dualism
sole true end of education
religious zealots
Epistemology
20. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
division of controversial issues
Outmoded
paideia
21. 1600s; get to truth through science
linguistic descriptions
modernity
pure secularism
ethics and aesthetics
22. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Individual Christian mind
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Zeno
23. Kant's general form of moral law
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
practical side (CDE pattern)
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
categorical imperative
24. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Naturalism vs. Christianity
existentialism
postmodernist aesthetics
25. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
in the home
idealist theory of education
maturational theories
26. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
goal of empiricism
up
First Amendment activists
undergraduate schools
27. 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
Politics
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Justice and meritocracy
atheistic wing of existentialism
28. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
embrace them intellectually
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
29. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Experimentalist aesthetics
Hindu Patheism
responsibility theory
30. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Dorian music
Peterson
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Hellenica
31. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Aristotle
truth from narratives and story-telling
naturalism
philosophy as a subject matter
32. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Against the Sophists
noetic powers
Pluralism
Monkey Trial
33. Two categories of axiology
Isocrates
ethics and aesthetics
existence precedes essence
Epistemology
34. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
virtue
epitome of postmodern person
philosophy as a subject matter
Trivium and Quadrivium
35. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
scholastic
Pluralism
Sophists
preciseness
36. Socrates' ultimate goal
Abraham Joshua Heschel
virtue
naturalism
normative philosophy of education
37. 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
Herodotus
ordinary language analysis
Athens
Republic
38. 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
empirical analytics
existentialism
Laws
Middle Ages
39. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
practical side (CDE pattern)
Xenophon
confidence
40. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Epistemology
Leisure
Naturalist aim of education
Family
41. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
local government
Dorian music
collective Christian mind
Republic
42. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Outmoded
idealist metaphysics
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Protagoras
43. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Great defect in modern education
local government
California and Texas
ages that Trivium should be used
44. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
philosophy
Monkey Trial
Leisure
45. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
active
Athens
philosophy as a subject matter
46. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Strict neutrality
Experimentalist aesthetics
theoretical issues
criticism of latin
47. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
empirical analytics
Allegory of the Cave
Materialism
collective Christian mind
48. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
cognitive
hallmark of liberal arts education
Protagoras
experimentalist aesthetic view
49. 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
Allegory of the Cave
multiculturalism
maturational theories
50. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
postmodernist theory of education
Sir Francis Bacon
normative
normative philosophy of education
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