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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
virtue
philosophy
pragmatism
matter
2. 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
aesthetics
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Thracians
Nicomachean Ethics
3. 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
Nicocles
Sigmund Freud
Stanley Fish
virtue
4. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Lyceum
analytic philosophy
philosophical analysis
Monkey Trial
5. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
synthetic
hairsplitting
controlled transaction
rhetoric
6. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
Jacques Derrida
existentialist view of education
Stanford University Students
7. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
ages that Trivium should be used
Isocrates
analytic
critique of great texts of western world
8. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
organized knowledge
Epicurus
in the home
Neil Postman
9. 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
Allegory of the Cave
ethics and aesthetics
Modernity
10. Two main philosophers of idealism
Tenure
Kant and George Berkeley
vocational training
local government
11. 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
reader-response theory
Integrated Education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
12. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Plato and the arts
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
fundamental part of teaching
13. Consisted of subjects
Golden Mean and habit
pragmatism
Quadrivium
ethics
14. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Zeno
existentialist aesthetics
Herodotus
philosophical idealist
15. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
Xenophon
Socratic method
Stanford University Students
16. What was created to protect academic freedom?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Tenure
Materialism
reason for sending child to public school
17. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
Criticism of existentialism
atheistic wing of existentialism
cultural literacy
18. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
self-knowledge
philosophy of education
theistic wing of existentialism
form
19. Stress self-expression
matter
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
maturational theories
ideal language analysis
20. Started naturalism
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
theoretical issues
revelation
Sir Francis Bacon
21. General ideas about education and their logical implications
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existentialism
theoretical issues
22. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
xenophon
a healthy Christian theism
Cosmic dualism
transcendential idealism
23. Kant's general form of moral law
controlled transaction
Monkey Trial
categorical imperative
collective Christian mind
24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
general education
modernity
axiology
25. 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
Euthydemus
Isocrates
Sir Francis Bacon
atheistic wing of existentialism
26. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
existence precedes essence
liberation to truth
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
27. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Protagorean rationale for general education
Experimentalist view of education
linguistic descriptions
Protagoras
28. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Modernity
particularism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
preciseness
29. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
Against the Sophists
existentialist view of education
ethics and aesthetics
30. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
undergraduate schools
hallmark of liberal arts education
vocational training
31. Capability to change in certain ways
Modernity
potentiality
undergraduate schools
scholastic
32. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Sir Francis Bacon
philosophical analysis
Herodotus
reason for sending child to public school
33. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
only adequate education
Aristotle
dialectic
34. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
worldview
35. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
flute
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Arabasis
undergraduate schools
36. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
socratic method
Tolkein approach
reason for sending child to public school
37. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Thracians
sauromatides
categorical imperative
38. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
categorical imperative
Justice and meritocracy
Outmoded
39. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
theoretical issues
responsibility theory
Epicurus
Lyceum
40. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
experimentalist aesthetic view
Trivium and Quadrivium
mirror of society and critic of society
preciseness
41. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
liberal learning
rejected
practical issues
42. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
Family
Protagoras
value neutrality
existentialism
43. Use women more as slaves
Thracians
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
postmodernist aesthetics
categorical imperative
44. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
Great defect in modern education
virtue
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
45. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
categorical imperative
active
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Xenophon
46. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
synthetic
value neutrality
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
preciseness
47. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
self-knowledge
dialectic
cultural literacy
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
48. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Essence
First Amendment activists
existentialist view of education
potentiality
49. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Materialism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
preciseness
50. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
tradition of liberal arts education
collective Christian mind
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues