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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Use women more as slaves
reason for sending child to public school
Thracians
consumerism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
2. 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
pragmatism
Materialism
theistic wing of existentialism
Monkey Trial
3. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Tenure
paideia
liberation to truth
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
4. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
organized knowledge
Order of Trivium
Zeno
Hindu Patheism
5. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Experimentalist view of education
reason for sending child to public school
existentialist view of education
rhetoric
6. No God
Hindu Patheism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
sauromatides
7. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
First Amendment activists
xenophon
postermodernist literary ideas
logic
8. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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9. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
categorical imperative
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Peterson
10. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
national government
self-knowledge
Hellenica
11. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
postmodernist aesthetics
controlled transaction
leaner-centered approach
Middle Ages
12. General ideas about education and their logical implications
dialectic
epitome of postmodern person
theoretical issues
Family
13. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Latin
Protagoras
Aristotle
cognitive-stage theories
14. It is a dead language
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Euthydemus
Experimentalist aesthetics
criticism of latin
15. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Modernity
empiricism
responsibility theory
Protestant Reformation
16. 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
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
difference between leisure and amusement
a healthy Christian theism
17. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Great defect in modern education
philosophy as a subject matter
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
logic
18. 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)
Key elements of Greek education
general education
criticism of latin
19. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
Socratic method
Zeno
happiness
20. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Order of Trivium
Laws
descriptive
analytic philosophy
21. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
difference between leisure and amusement
noetic powers
California and Texas
naturalistic cosmotogies
22. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
national government
23. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
trivium
hallmark of liberal arts education
Family
24. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
metaphysics
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Sophists
25. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
linguistic descriptions
philosophy of education
Essence
Integrated Education
26. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
idealist theory of education
organized knowledge
Outmoded
only adequate education
27. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
California and Texas
xenophon
Naturalism
ordinary language analysis
28. Learning is...
existentialism
active
Socratic method
Outmoded
29. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
idealist value theory
Plato's division of human decisions
socialization theories
30. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Neo-Platonism
Dorian music
Trivium and Quadrivium
Protagoras
31. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
flute
sauromatides
Integrated Education
scholastic
32. 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
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
existentialism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Against the Sophists
33. What medievals focused on
revelation
Platonic concept of education
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Tenure
34. Capability to change in certain ways
practical issues
potentiality
Republic
worldview
35. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
existentialism
Postmodernity educational practice
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
existentialist view of education
36. To teach men how to learn for themselves
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
up
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
sole true end of education
37. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
casuity
goal of empiricism
Allegory of the Cave
logic
38. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Trivium and Quadrivium
responsibility theory
linguistic descriptions
tradition of liberal arts education
39. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
Plato and the arts
dogmatic theory
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
postmodernism
40. Stress self-expression
Criticism of existentialism
existentialist view of education
analytic philosophy
maturational theories
41. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
in the home
a subject matter and an activity
controlled transaction
42. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
empirical analytics
Aristotle
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
normative
43. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
ordinary language analysis
Politics
complete moral education
44. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Blessing
virtue
logic
Family
45. 1600s; get to truth through science
organized knowledge
existentialist aesthetics
modernity
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
46. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
Against the Sophists
Thoreau
Republic
47. 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
a healthy Christian theism
hallmark of liberal arts education
Republic
Aristotle
48. Nature of any given thing
Athens
Essence
hairsplitting
modernity
49. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
metaphysics
synthetic
Cosmic dualism
Order of Trivium
50. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Memorabilia
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Antidosis