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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Zeno
up
Great defect in modern education
modernity
2. Started naturalism
Tolkein approach
idealist metaphysics
Sir Francis Bacon
Laws
3. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
organized knowledge
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Zeno
4. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
a subject matter and an activity
philosophy as a subject matter
Stanley Fish
complete moral education
5. How was ancient Greece divided?
Panathenaicus
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
descriptive
Quadrivium
6. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Pluralism
Amish
Protagorean rationale for general education
casuity
7. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
Isocrates
happiness
ethics and aesthetics
8. Father of History
Herodotus
existentialism
Isocrates
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
9. 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
Pluralism
Materialism
Euthydemus
metaphysics
10. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
hairsplitting
philosophical idealist
fundamental part of teaching
Tenure
11. What the medievals are criticized for
Pluralism
hairsplitting
X Generation
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
12. World is an emanation of God's own being
cognitive-stage theories
linguistic descriptions
Neo-Platonism
criticism of latin
13. Aspect which makes something tangible
value neutrality
Athens and Sparta
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
matter
14. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
hairsplitting
xenophon
noetic powers
existentialist aesthetics
15. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
sauromatides
postermodernist literary ideas
philosophy
existentialism
16. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Athens
trivium
existence precedes essence
Stanford University Students
17. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
synthetic
virtue
tradition of liberal arts education
Modernity
18. 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
Cosmic dualism
theoretical issues
analytic philosophy
Family
19. Socrates' ultimate goal
modernity
Sigmund Freud
Dorian music
virtue
20. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
existence precedes essence
organized knowledge
ideal language analysis
Experimentalist values
21. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
synthetic
Outmoded
modernity
22. One that shapes the whole person
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
value neutrality
only adequate education
philosophical idealist
23. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
dogmatic theory
linguistic descriptions
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Dorian music
24. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
general education
Athens
Stanley Fish
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
25. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
idealist theory of education
liberation to truth
Individual Christian mind
arete
26. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Thomistic realism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
idealist theory of education
Thracians
27. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
atheistic wing of existentialism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Lyceum
value neutrality
28. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
rejected
practical side (CDE pattern)
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
existentialist view of education
29. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
paideia
local government
particularism
pure secularism
30. 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
Republic
Epistemology
liberation to truth
existentialism
31. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Plato
Naturalism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
32. Rational structure of Christian thought
collective Christian mind
Golden Mean and habit
dogmatic theory
Stanley Fish
33. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
sole true end of education
Socratic method
synthetic
postmodernist aesthetics
34. 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
scholastic
philosophy of education
difference between leisure and amusement
Platonic concept of education
35. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
liberal education and career training
Politics
Latin
Trivium and Quadrivium
36. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
undergraduate schools
practical side (CDE pattern)
Experimentalist values
37. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
reason
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
organized knowledge
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
38. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
Platonic concept of education
Experimentalist aesthetics
Blessing
39. 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
Aristotle
Sparta
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Isocrates
40. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
Theology
Athens and Sparta
philosophical analysis
41. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Integrated Education
Laws
active
philosophy of education
42. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
practical issues
conceptual mapping
Athens
state
43. To teach men how to learn for themselves
liberal education and career training
critique of great texts of western world
sole true end of education
rejected
44. 'What is good?'
ethics
in the home
value neutrality
Antidosis
45. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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46. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
ordinary language analysis
hubris
idealist metaphysics
Politics
47. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
pragmatism
noetic powers
xenophon
48. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
revelation
Athens and Sparta
Latin
49. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Isocrates
Platonic concept of education
noetic powers
local government
50. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Republic
socratic method
existentialist aesthetics
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools