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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. No God
existentialism
Platonic concept of education
multiculturalism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
2. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
atheistic wing of existentialism
happiness
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
3. 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
Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
difference between leisure and amusement
conceptual mapping
4. Philosophy is both...?
Epistemology
Hindu Patheism
a subject matter and an activity
reader-response theory
5. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
national government
ethics
epitome of postmodern person
ethics and aesthetics
6. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
a healthy Christian theism
active
Sigmund Freud
casuity
7. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
controlled transaction
Athens
a subject matter and an activity
X Generation
8. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
rhetoric
leaner-centered approach
Xenophon
9. General ideas about education and their logical implications
pragmatism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
theoretical issues
existentialist view of education
10. Stress self-expression
X Generation
maturational theories
casuity
Panathenaicus
11. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Plato and the arts
Experimentalist values
liberal education and career training
Theology
12. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
worldview
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
synthetic
13. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Great defect in modern education
Panathenaicus
epitome of postmodern person
Justice and meritocracy
14. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Sparta
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Kant and George Berkeley
Trivium and Quadrivium
15. 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
Order of Trivium
Politics
Laws
Thoreau
16. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
a healthy Christian theism
reader-response theory
Plato
organized knowledge
17. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
axiology
pragmatism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
existentialist aesthetics
18. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
form
fundamental part of teaching
Naturalism
19. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Golden Mean and habit
Plato
dialectic
philosophy
20. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Athens
Latin
Neo-Platonism
leaner-centered approach
21. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Latin
Pluralism
Thomistic realism
naturalistic cosmotogies
22. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Great defect in modern education
Hindu Patheism
pure secularism
in the home
23. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Hindu Patheism
existentialist aesthetics
Plato
24. Learning is...
active
pragmatism
undergraduate schools
Aristotle
25. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
analytic philosophy
liberal education and career training
innoculation method
philosophy as a subject matter
26. 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
self-knowledge
undergraduate schools
Nicomachean Ethics
Panathenaicus
27. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
reader-response theory
axiology
xenophon
Naturalism vs. Christianity
28. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Jacques Derrida
quadrivium
postmodernist aesthetics
Peterson
29. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
existence precedes essence
in the home
existentialist view of education
30. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
trivium
aesthetics
Integrated Education
national government
31. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
Allegory of the Cave
subjective idealism
rhetoric
32. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Criticism of existentialism
Tenure
liberal education and career training
synthetic
33. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
Panathenaicus
complete moral education
Protestant Reformation
34. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
potentiality
casuity
goal of empiricism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
35. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Plato
responsibility theory
Isocrates
Key elements of Greek education
36. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
happiness
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Nicomachean Ethics
37. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
hallmark of liberal arts education
Hellenica
Republic
38. 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
ordinary language analysis
Lyceum
ethics
Antidosis
39. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
truth from narratives and story-telling
cognitive
Amish
Peterson
40. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
axiology
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
experimentalist aesthetic view
Xenophon
41. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Canon
Plato
Tolkein approach
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
42. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Memorabilia
experimentalist aesthetic view
Jacques Derrida
religious zealots
43. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Sir Francis Bacon
experiential
vocational training
postmodernism
44. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Pluralism
revelation
Isocrates
Euthydemus
45. Knowledge most worth having
linguistic descriptions
Jacques Derrida
self-knowledge
pragmatism
46. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
liberation to truth
Sir Francis Bacon
philosophical analysis
Materialism
47. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
postmodernity
Isocrates
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
48. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
transcendential idealism
Individual Christian mind
Plato and the arts
controlled transaction
49. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
Materialism
potentiality
famous attack of medievals
50. Good and evil in constant battle
arete
revelation
Memorabilia
Cosmic dualism