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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
rejected
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
2. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Stanford University Students
collective Christian mind
difference between leisure and amusement
Platonic concept of education
3. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
Tolkein approach
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
analytic philosophy
4. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
philosophy as a subject matter
complete moral education
philosophy
Panathenaicus
5. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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6. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Modernity
normative philosophy of education
xenophon
general education
7. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
rhetoric
California and Texas
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Family
8. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
experiential
Jacques Derrida
philosophy of education
9. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Plato's division of human decisions
Laws
complete moral education
happiness
10. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
Republic
Tenure
mirror of society and critic of society
11. 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
vocational training
postmodernist theory of education
transcendential idealism
Postmodernity educational practice
12. Learning is...
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
epitome of postmodern person
subjective idealism
active
13. 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
Socratic method
theistic wing of existentialism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
dialectic
14. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Stanford University Students
Athens
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
empirical analytics
15. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
Euthydemus
goal of liberal education
liberal learning
value neutrality
16. 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
postmodernism
hallmark of liberal arts education
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
17. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
analytic
conceptual mapping
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Quadrivium
18. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
John Dewey
Modernity
liberal education and career training
19. Technology is not always a __________.
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Blessing
ages that Trivium should be used
Experimentalist aesthetics
20. 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
Against the Sophists
Thracians
Order of Trivium
Tenure
21. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Naturalist aim of education
X Generation
Thomistic realism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
22. 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
Key elements of Greek education
fundamental part of teaching
Nicomachean Ethics
form
23. It is a dead language
Thomistic realism
liberal education and career training
criticism of latin
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
24. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Leisure
truth from narratives and story-telling
Monkey Trial
conceptual mapping
25. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
confidence
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Kant and George Berkeley
reader-response theory
26. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
epitome of postmodern person
existentialism
Canon
goal of liberal education
27. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Criticism of existentialism
idealist value theory
Justice and meritocracy
Euthydemus
28. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Isocrates
liberation to truth
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
sauromatides
29. 'Man is the measure of all things'
socialization theories
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Laws
Protagoras
30. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
Middle Ages
Arabasis
Modernity
Aristotle
31. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Laws
dialectic
Allegory of the Cave
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
32. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
existentialism
philosophy of education
Politics
transcendential idealism
33. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Amish
Neo-Platonism
Isocrates
34. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
undergraduate schools
reason for sending child to public school
potentiality
35. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Liberally educated person
liberal education and career training
preciseness
Tolkein approach
36. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
up
atheistic wing of existentialism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Plato and the arts
37. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Protagorean rationale for general education
existentialist aesthetics
revelation
form
38. 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
Amish
cultural literacy
synthetic
39. 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
national government
empirical analytics
Sparta
empiricism
40. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Peterson
normative
undergraduate schools
matter
41. 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
Laws
Socrates
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Memorabilia
42. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
sauromatides
Theology
a subject matter and an activity
postmodernist aesthetics
43. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Plato
philosophy of education
Isocrates
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
44. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
rejected
liberal education and career training
difference between leisure and amusement
Allegory of the Cave
45. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
ideal language analysis
existentialism
California and Texas
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
46. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Aristotle
theistic wing of existentialism
sole true end of education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
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
Laws
naturalism
Golden Mean and habit
Protestant Reformation
48. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
Plato
subjective idealism
transcendential idealism
49. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
socialization theories
Dorian music
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
experiential
50. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
existentialism
Aristotle