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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Nicocles
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Lyceum
Against the Sophists
2. 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
transcendential idealism
actuality
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Trivium and Quadrivium
3. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
practical issues
Against the Sophists
Athens and Sparta
scholastic
4. 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)
hubris
Justice and meritocracy
difference between leisure and amusement
5. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
sauromatides
analysis
philosophical analysis
6. Started naturalism
existentialist aesthetics
a subject matter and an activity
Experimentalist view of education
Sir Francis Bacon
7. Most famous multiculturalist project
matter
theoretical issues
transcendential idealism
critique of great texts of western world
8. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
multiculturalism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
9. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Pluralism
Criticism of existentialism
California and Texas
Nicomachean Ethics
10. 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
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thomistic realism
postmodernist theory of education
Euthydemus
11. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
existentialist aesthetics
epitome of postmodern person
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
12. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
form
Experimentalist values
Plato
13. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Middle Ages
national government
conceptual mapping
14. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
quadrivium
Dorian music
liberal education and career training
general education
15. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
experimentalist aesthetic view
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
reader-response theory
16. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Amish
hairsplitting
Laws
Memorabilia
17. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Neil Postman
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Integrated Education
18. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
existentialist aesthetics
California and Texas
Naturalism
19. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
Allegory of the Cave
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
rejected
transcendential idealism
20. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Epicurus
Against the Sophists
21. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Strict neutrality
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
California and Texas
Abraham Lincoln
22. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy as a subject matter
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
23. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
dialectic
innoculation method
Isocrates
24. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
naturalism
ethics and aesthetics
descriptive
existentialism
25. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
mirror of society and critic of society
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Individual Christian mind
Strict neutrality
26. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy as a subject matter
logic
reader-response theory
27. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
Tolkein approach
Latin
Nicomachean Ethics
idealist metaphysics
28. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
hairsplitting
Tolkein approach
particularism
Materialism
29. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
pragmatism
Tolkein approach
general education
30. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
categorical imperative
Modernity
Liberally educated person
goal of empiricism
31. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Athens
Integrated Education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Trivium and Quadrivium
32. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Protestant Reformation
virtue
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
33. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Aristotle
existentialism
34. 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
Strict neutrality
Monkey Trial
sauromatides
Protagoras
35. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
Family
rhetoric
Quadrivium
36. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
existentialism
Thomistic realism
revelation
37. Quintessential educated medieval person
analysis
philosophy of education
linguistic descriptions
scholastic
38. What is a 'DWEM'?
modernity
X Generation
Dead White European Male
Isocrates
39. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
analytic
liberal education and career training
Epicurus
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
40. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Experimentalist values
pragmatism
analysis
Abraham Joshua Heschel
41. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
Tenure
epitome of postmodern person
practical issues
Trivium and Quadrivium
42. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
postmodernist aesthetics
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy of education
43. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
normative
Stanford University Students
Athens
normative philosophy of education
44. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
cognitive
synthetic
Thracians
cognitive-stage theories
45. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
maturational theories
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
revelation
Athens
46. Portion of being
national government
mirror of society and critic of society
actuality
Socratic method
47. 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
Plato
Golden Mean and habit
Plato and the arts
Isocrates
48. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
Athens and Sparta
theoretical issues
happiness
Dorian music
49. What Greeks mostly focused on
Materialism
local government
Individual Christian mind
reason
50. What the medievals are criticized for
hairsplitting
liberal learning
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
analysis