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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
Golden Mean and habit
general education
Laws
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
2. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
existence precedes essence
experiential
famous attack of medievals
Laws
3. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Republic
Leisure
Individual Christian mind
Plato
4. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Republic
ethics and aesthetics
Zeno
practical side (CDE pattern)
5. 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
state
Trivium and Quadrivium
reason
Liberally educated person
6. Concept of the beautiful
Criticism of existentialism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
scholastic
aesthetics
7. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Materialism
aesthetics
Athens
8. 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)
Lyceum
complete moral education
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
9. 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?'
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Laws
Key elements of Greek education
rejected
10. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
potentiality
experiential
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Epicurus
11. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
dogmatic theory
Aristotle
ages that Trivium should be used
12. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Isocrates
sauromatides
particularism
innoculation method
13. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Family
idealist theory of education
Republic
Platonic concept of education
14. Aspect which makes something tangible
undergraduate schools
tradition of liberal arts education
matter
theistic wing of existentialism
15. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Abraham Lincoln
dogmatic theory
up
controlled transaction
16. 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
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Plato and the arts
actuality
Lyceum
17. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
division of controversial issues
Protestant Reformation
Modernity
pragmatism
18. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
Xenophon
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
existentialist aesthetics
19. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
ethics
revelation
collective Christian mind
20. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Hindu Patheism
Protestant Reformation
21. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
atheistic wing of existentialism
in the home
ideal language analysis
Euthydemus
22. Learning is...
active
normative
practical side (CDE pattern)
Neo-Platonism
23. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
postmodernity
experimentalist aesthetic view
Epicurus
Cosmic dualism
24. 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
dialectic
existentialism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Tolkein approach
25. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
national government
rhetoric
Postmodernity educational practice
transcendential idealism
26. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
responsibility theory
undergraduate schools
Stanley Fish
aesthetics
27. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
only adequate education
conceptual mapping
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
28. 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
Abraham Lincoln
Zeno
Criticism of existentialism
29. 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
dogmatic theory
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
logic
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
30. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
naturalism
Neil Postman
collective Christian mind
31. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Epicurus
fundamental part of teaching
Amish
philosophical idealist
32. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
philosophical idealist
undergraduate schools
tradition of liberal arts education
Leisure
33. 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
controlled transaction
naturalistic cosmotogies
analytic philosophy
Against the Sophists
34. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
a healthy Christian theism
liberation to truth
philosophical analysis
worldview
35. 3 traditional philosophies of education
hubris
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
metaphysics
organized knowledge
36. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
Athens and Sparta
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
ordinary language analysis
37. Consisted of subjects
Dorian music
tradition of liberal arts education
Quadrivium
truth from narratives and story-telling
38. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
religious zealots
existentialist view of education
experiential
Isocrates
39. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
analytic philosophy
general education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
40. The 'love of wisdom'
Euthydemus
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy
41. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
idealist value theory
quadrivium
tradition of liberal arts education
metaphysics
42. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
practical side (CDE pattern)
socratic method
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
existentialism
43. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
atheistic wing of existentialism
hairsplitting
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
state
44. Children born from 1981-1999
philosophical analysis
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Stanford University Students
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
45. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
Epicurus
fundamental part of teaching
sauromatides
46. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
liberation to truth
Amish
theoretical issues
Platonic concept of education
47. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
in the home
pure secularism
epitome of postmodern person
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
48. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
metaphysics
ethics and aesthetics
Platonic concept of education
Sophists
49. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
responsibility theory
subjective idealism
conceptual mapping
reader-response theory
50. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
postermodernist literary ideas
dialectic
Postmodernity educational practice
idealist metaphysics