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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
happiness
subjective idealism
critique of great texts of western world
2. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
Euthydemus
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
ordinary language analysis
3. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
sauromatides
arete
philosophical idealist
4. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
philosophy
Republic
John Dewey
Xenophon
5. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
trivium
scholastic
Great defect in modern education
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
6. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
ideal language analysis
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
a healthy Christian theism
cognitive
7. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
Against the Sophists
revelation
postmodernism
8. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Laws
theistic wing of existentialism
Order of Trivium
analysis
9. Theoretical issues and practical issues
liberal learning
Sigmund Freud
Kant and George Berkeley
division of controversial issues
10. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
postmodernist theory of education
Great defect in modern education
Lyceum
happiness
11. What medievals focused on
revelation
Neo-Platonism
consumerism
trivium
12. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
Tenure
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
up
aesthetics
13. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Strict neutrality
idealist metaphysics
Modernity
experiential
14. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Dead White European Male
existentialist view of education
Protagoras
idealist theory of education
15. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
trivium
Plato
normative
16. 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
naturalistic cosmotogies
postmodernism
Against the Sophists
pragmatism
17. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
complete moral education
Stanley Fish
liberal education and career training
multiculturalism
18. It is a dead language
analysis
criticism of latin
existentialist view of education
Platonic concept of education
19. 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
cognitive
Experimentalist view of education
Athens
Golden Mean and habit
20. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
reason
cognitive
categorical imperative
21. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
Pluralism
Republic
linguistic descriptions
22. 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
X Generation
practical side (CDE pattern)
linguistic descriptions
existence precedes essence
23. 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
flute
existentialism
Latin
dogmatic theory
24. 'What is valuable?'
axiology
cognitive
Outmoded
Memorabilia
25. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Athens and Sparta
goal of empiricism
Modernity
organized knowledge
26. 'Man is the measure of all things'
dogmatic theory
Protagoras
Neil Postman
analysis
27. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
analysis
national government
Family
Kant and George Berkeley
28. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
hallmark of liberal arts education
Dead White European Male
practical issues
Materialism
29. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
tradition of liberal arts education
Protestant Reformation
Politics
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
30. 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
Trivium and Quadrivium
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Outmoded
xenophon
31. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
reason
linguistic descriptions
philosophy as a subject matter
Protagoras
32. 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
Stanford University Students
famous attack of medievals
Liberally educated person
Laws
33. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
Jacques Derrida
axiology
worldview
34. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
innoculation method
ages that Trivium should be used
hubris
35. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
pragmatism
Sparta
Order of Trivium
36. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Criticism of existentialism
rejected
virtue
Tolkein approach
37. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
paideia
collective Christian mind
general education
Aristotle
38. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Liberally educated person
synthetic
particularism
sauromatides
39. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Quadrivium
Plato
40. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
happiness
liberal education and career training
Sir Francis Bacon
revelation
41. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
revelation
theistic wing of existentialism
Hindu Patheism
practical side (CDE pattern)
42. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Athens
Tenure
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
43. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
postmodernist aesthetics
Sophists
Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophical idealist
44. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
experimentalist aesthetic view
cognitive
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
philosophy of education
45. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
normative
idealist metaphysics
Amish
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
46. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
rhetoric
Politics
Protagorean rationale for general education
47. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
existence precedes essence
Athens
Dead White European Male
48. 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
existentialist aesthetics
metaphysics
cultural literacy
Nicocles
49. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Key elements of Greek education
fundamental part of teaching
Great defect in modern education
consumerism
50. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
cognitive
cognitive-stage theories
leaner-centered approach
practical side (CDE pattern)