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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
ethics
form
ideal language analysis
Outmoded
2. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Sigmund Freud
experiential
scholastic
3. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
only adequate education
Thomistic realism
hubris
Experimentalist aesthetics
4. Philosophy is both...?
paideia
Tolkein approach
quadrivium
a subject matter and an activity
5. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
philosophy of education
goal of liberal education
Essence
philosophy
6. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Cosmic dualism
John Dewey
philosophy as a subject matter
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
7. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
existentialist aesthetics
empiricism
paideia
analysis
8. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
national government
epitome of postmodern person
Liberally educated person
9. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Materialism
philosophical analysis
Arabasis
10. 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
synthetic
a healthy Christian theism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
11. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
synthetic
Trivium and Quadrivium
idealist theory of education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
12. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
trivium
Naturalism vs. Christianity
actuality
13. 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
famous attack of medievals
metaphysics
postmodernity
practical side (CDE pattern)
14. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
philosophical analysis
Plato
philosophical idealist
Epistemology
15. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
atheistic wing of existentialism
Naturalist aim of education
local government
16. 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)
Essence
complete moral education
Isocrates
17. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
practical issues
metaphysics
particularism
Stanford University Students
18. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Sir Francis Bacon
Allegory of the Cave
Tolkein approach
Postmodernity educational practice
19. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Dead White European Male
John Dewey
existentialism
empirical analytics
20. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
liberation to truth
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Memorabilia
ideal language analysis
21. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
Dorian music
Outmoded
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
practical issues
22. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
Golden Mean and habit
Latin
postmodernity
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
23. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
First Amendment activists
Platonic concept of education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
Nicocles
Hindu Patheism
Individual Christian mind
25. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Neil Postman
Experimentalist aesthetics
synthetic
26. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Zeno
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
goal of liberal education
value neutrality
27. Socrates' ultimate goal
Aristotle
Thracians
virtue
metaphysics
28. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
experimentalist aesthetic view
Athens and Sparta
Socratic method
29. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
mirror of society and critic of society
rhetoric
Naturalism
Laws
30. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
collective Christian mind
socialization theories
Socrates
31. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Strict neutrality
Plato
Justice and meritocracy
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
32. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
philosophy
Postmodernity educational practice
Zeno
33. Consisted of subjects
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Quadrivium
Nicocles
Epistemology
34. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Justice and meritocracy
flute
Latin
Stanford University Students
35. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
existence precedes essence
worldview
cultural literacy
Neo-Platonism
36. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
naturalistic cosmotogies
xenophon
Sigmund Freud
worldview
37. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
pragmatism
up
empiricism
philosophical idealist
38. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Aristotle
reason
Neil Postman
39. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Republic
Protagorean rationale for general education
Isocrates
Naturalism vs. Christianity
40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
form
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
metaphysics
reader-response theory
41. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Abraham Lincoln
postermodernist literary ideas
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
42. Father of History
liberation to truth
sauromatides
Aristotle
Herodotus
43. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Xenophon
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
complete moral education
Blessing
44. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Amish
up
active
rhetoric
45. Nature of any given thing
Essence
ethics
Materialism
criticism of latin
46. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
philosophical analysis
Athens
Herodotus
aesthetics
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?'
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
descriptive
Aristotle
Key elements of Greek education
48. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
postmodernism
tradition of liberal arts education
Lyceum
49. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Athens and Sparta
responsibility theory
socratic method
sole true end of education
50. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Protagoras
empiricism
linguistic descriptions
Postmodernity educational practice
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