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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Lyceum
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Order of Trivium
general education
2. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
pragmatism
Abraham Lincoln
3. World is an emanation of God's own being
goal of liberal education
Neo-Platonism
tradition of liberal arts education
idealist theory of education
4. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Epicurus
Laws
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
quadrivium
5. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
difference between leisure and amusement
noetic powers
normative philosophy of education
6. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
Sparta
Athens and Sparta
synthetic
7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
worldview
Euthydemus
complete moral education
8. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Peterson
organized knowledge
synthetic
pure secularism
9. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Stanley Fish
Latin
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
10. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Isocrates
dogmatic theory
Peterson
Laws
11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Blessing
philosophical idealist
Aristotle
ages that Trivium should be used
12. Started naturalism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
pure secularism
Justice and meritocracy
Sir Francis Bacon
13. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Abraham Lincoln
analysis
goal of liberal education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
14. 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
Arabasis
Family
Plato and the arts
Strict neutrality
15. 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
Naturalism
dialectic
existentialism
critique of great texts of western world
16. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Strict neutrality
division of controversial issues
analysis
17. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
analysis
Protestant Reformation
18. 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
Socratic method
Justice and meritocracy
Plato
Antidosis
19. General ideas about education and their logical implications
noetic powers
theoretical issues
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
existentialism
20. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
organized knowledge
Aristotle
socratic method
conceptual mapping
21. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
casuity
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
experiential
Socratic method
22. Two categories of axiology
ethics
ethics and aesthetics
cognitive
arete
23. 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
Republic
atheistic wing of existentialism
Tolkein approach
Epistemology
24. What Greeks mostly focused on
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
postmodernist aesthetics
practical side (CDE pattern)
reason
25. Kant's general form of moral law
Family
undergraduate schools
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
categorical imperative
26. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
particularism
First Amendment activists
value neutrality
trivium
27. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
goal of empiricism
arete
tradition of liberal arts education
collective Christian mind
28. Martin Luther; John Calvin
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Protestant Reformation
difference between leisure and amusement
Protagoras
29. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Blessing
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Middle Ages
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
30. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Protagorean rationale for general education
religious zealots
revelation
Naturalism
31. Two main philosophers of idealism
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Kant and George Berkeley
philosophy
32. 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
xenophon
Sophists
Experimentalist aesthetics
naturalistic cosmotogies
33. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
liberation to truth
Herodotus
idealist value theory
ages that Trivium should be used
34. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Athens
idealist metaphysics
reason for sending child to public school
Thoreau
35. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
Order of Trivium
Amish
criticism of latin
36. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
experimentalist aesthetic view
difference between leisure and amusement
casuity
idealist metaphysics
37. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
California and Texas
Postmodernity educational practice
Republic
38. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
39. 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
Essence
Experimentalist view of education
confidence
Nicomachean Ethics
40. Use women more as slaves
confidence
Family
Thracians
Plato and the arts
41. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
general education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
flute
Kant and George Berkeley
42. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
hairsplitting
Theology
preciseness
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
43. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
national government
empiricism
fundamental part of teaching
44. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Key elements of Greek education
multiculturalism
Golden Mean and habit
California and Texas
45. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
flute
goal of empiricism
pragmatism
Criticism of existentialism
46. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Leisure
Protagoras
philosophy as a subject matter
47. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Monkey Trial
theoretical issues
cognitive-stage theories
philosophical analysis
48. Good and evil in constant battle
socialization theories
embrace them intellectually
Cosmic dualism
Sir Francis Bacon
49. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
Pluralism
Socratic method
First Amendment activists
50. Aspect which makes something tangible
truth from narratives and story-telling
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
matter
ultimate goal of aesthetic education