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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
reader-response theory
Thomistic realism
liberal learning
in the home
2. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
pure secularism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
3. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
cognitive-stage theories
consumerism
ethics and aesthetics
postmodernist theory of education
4. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
hubris
up
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
noetic powers
5. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
ideal language analysis
postermodernist literary ideas
Aristotle
6. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Order of Trivium
existentialist view of education
trivium
Tenure
7. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Socrates
general education
critique of great texts of western world
pragmatism
8. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
reason
logic
socialization theories
Monkey Trial
9. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
Peterson
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
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
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
undergraduate schools
postmodernist aesthetics
liberation to truth
11. Experience is reality; activity-based
idealist theory of education
pragmatism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
ages that Trivium should be used
12. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
John Dewey
Sigmund Freud
Amish
13. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
Against the Sophists
Nicomachean Ethics
cognitive
14. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
quadrivium
Experimentalist aesthetics
flute
Neil Postman
15. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Stanford University Students
Modernity
Kant and George Berkeley
Strict neutrality
16. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
existentialism
California and Texas
conceptual mapping
17. Two main philosophers of idealism
complete moral education
Hellenica
quadrivium
Kant and George Berkeley
18. 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?'
postmodernity
famous attack of medievals
Athens and Sparta
Key elements of Greek education
19. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Against the Sophists
a healthy Christian theism
rhetoric
20. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Thracians
general education
Latin
21. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
value neutrality
Aristotle
Panathenaicus
Sir Francis Bacon
22. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
liberal education and career training
Family
postmodernity
23. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
maturational theories
Protagoras
Plato
24. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
complete moral education
matter
empiricism
Stanford University Students
25. 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
preciseness
up
modernity
difference between leisure and amusement
26. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Naturalist aim of education
national government
self-knowledge
matter
27. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
rhetoric
Panathenaicus
Individual Christian mind
28. World is permeated by divine essence
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
analysis
Hindu Patheism
aesthetics
29. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Golden Mean and habit
Amish
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
embrace them intellectually
30. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Amish
Abraham Lincoln
postmodernist aesthetics
Isocrates
31. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
sauromatides
existentialist view of education
Middle Ages
Justice and meritocracy
32. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
sole true end of education
Thomistic realism
naturalism
idealist metaphysics
33. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Middle Ages
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
difference between leisure and amusement
self-knowledge
34. Use women more as slaves
trivium
Thracians
Nicomachean Ethics
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
35. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
philosophical idealist
fundamental part of teaching
Isocrates
36. 'Man is the measure of all things'
innoculation method
philosophy
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Protagoras
37. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
critique of great texts of western world
vocational training
Aristotle
Socrates
38. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
idealist value theory
Thomistic realism
Allegory of the Cave
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
39. What is a 'DWEM'?
Amish
value neutrality
Dead White European Male
Peterson
40. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
goal of liberal education
Naturalism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Liberally educated person
41. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
42. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Zeno
truth from narratives and story-telling
form
value neutrality
43. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Strict neutrality
division of controversial issues
Stanley Fish
Isocrates
44. Kant's general form of moral law
Leisure
categorical imperative
Isocrates
Experimentalist view of education
45. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
Against the Sophists
socratic method
Sparta
noetic powers
46. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
national government
Cosmic dualism
47. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Theology
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
innoculation method
48. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
sauromatides
Pluralism
Middle Ages
Neo-Platonism
49. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
metaphysics
worldview
Against the Sophists
50. 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
postermodernist literary ideas
Plato
Socrates
Sigmund Freud
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