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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
truth from narratives and story-telling
form
general education
local government
2. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Modernity
socialization theories
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
revelation
3. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
postmodernity
maturational theories
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Platonic concept of education
4. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
reader-response theory
arete
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
5. Knowledge most worth having
empirical analytics
potentiality
self-knowledge
Postmodernity educational practice
6. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
leaner-centered approach
Plato
Peterson
7. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Individual Christian mind
8. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
philosophy as a subject matter
John Dewey
philosophy
preciseness
9. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
worldview
First Amendment activists
Arabasis
mirror of society and critic of society
10. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
responsibility theory
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
rhetoric
existentialism
11. Categories of philosophy as an activity
aesthetics
local government
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
scholastic
12. 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
Leisure
Abraham Joshua Heschel
practical side (CDE pattern)
pragmatism
13. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
Nicocles
vocational training
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
linguistic descriptions
14. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Peterson
existentialist view of education
Middle Ages
in the home
15. 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
metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics
Tolkein approach
Liberally educated person
16. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
Lyceum
Individual Christian mind
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
17. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
truth from narratives and story-telling
Laws
Republic
18. Experience is reality; activity-based
logic
Naturalist aim of education
pragmatism
postmodernist aesthetics
19. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
organized knowledge
empirical analytics
leaner-centered approach
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
20. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Athens
Middle Ages
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
21. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Zeno
complete moral education
Experimentalist values
consumerism
22. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
hallmark of liberal arts education
ethics
consumerism
23. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
complete moral education
confidence
Experimentalist view of education
value neutrality
24. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
idealist theory of education
modernity
innoculation method
metaphysics
25. The 'love of wisdom'
existentialist view of education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
philosophy
value neutrality
26. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
existentialism
Experimentalist values
Socrates
27. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
maturational theories
Tenure
hairsplitting
liberal education and career training
28. 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
California and Texas
philosophy
collective Christian mind
Socrates
29. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
Liberally educated person
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
existentialist aesthetics
30. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
truth from narratives and story-telling
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Plato and the arts
31. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Abraham Joshua Heschel
subjective idealism
casuity
existentialist aesthetics
32. What Greeks mostly focused on
tradition of liberal arts education
vocational training
Panathenaicus
reason
33. 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
reason
postmodernist aesthetics
atheistic wing of existentialism
difference between leisure and amusement
34. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
practical side (CDE pattern)
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Cosmic dualism
postmodernist aesthetics
35. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Athens and Sparta
Family
worldview
actuality
36. Capability to change in certain ways
innoculation method
theistic wing of existentialism
matter
potentiality
37. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Pluralism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
responsibility theory
complete moral education
38. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Laws
paideia
Isocrates
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
39. Most famous multiculturalist project
critique of great texts of western world
Great defect in modern education
Kant and George Berkeley
postmodernism
40. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
Allegory of the Cave
philosophical analysis
philosophy of education
41. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
transcendential idealism
complete moral education
Aristotle
collective Christian mind
42. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Epicurus
Abraham Lincoln
theoretical issues
Platonic concept of education
43. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
conceptual mapping
rhetoric
reason
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
44. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
controlled transaction
experiential
First Amendment activists
Plato's division of human decisions
45. Father of History
Herodotus
Postmodernity educational practice
general education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
46. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
Allegory of the Cave
Theology
organized knowledge
47. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
analytic
critique of great texts of western world
linguistic descriptions
cognitive-stage theories
48. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
aesthetics
Postmodernity educational practice
Thoreau
49. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
multiculturalism
state
cultural literacy
epitome of postmodern person
50. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
dialectic
self-knowledge
Euthydemus