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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
analytic philosophy
Xenophon
responsibility theory
multiculturalism
2. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Panathenaicus
philosophy as a subject matter
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Experimentalist aesthetics
3. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
existentialist aesthetics
pragmatism
Athens
Trivium and Quadrivium
4. Knowledge most worth having
rejected
self-knowledge
hallmark of liberal arts education
complete moral education
5. Experience is reality; activity-based
Sparta
dialectic
categorical imperative
pragmatism
6. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Canon
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
actuality
Socratic method
7. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Abraham Lincoln
trivium
particularism
normative philosophy of education
8. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
theistic wing of existentialism
Republic
normative
cognitive
9. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
embrace them intellectually
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Abraham Joshua Heschel
10. The 'love of wisdom'
metaphysics
analytic philosophy
philosophy
existentialist aesthetics
11. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
postmodernist aesthetics
noetic powers
dogmatic theory
aesthetics
12. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
Republic
value neutrality
rejected
goal of liberal education
13. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
synthetic
rejected
Middle Ages
Dorian music
14. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Protagoras
normative philosophy of education
leaner-centered approach
15. General ideas about education and their logical implications
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
theoretical issues
happiness
atheistic wing of existentialism
16. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
dialectic
famous attack of medievals
goal of empiricism
tradition of liberal arts education
17. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
liberation to truth
Amish
noetic powers
18. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
rhetoric
theistic wing of existentialism
innoculation method
local government
19. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
sauromatides
pragmatism
mirror of society and critic of society
Herodotus
20. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
modernity
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
a healthy Christian theism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
21. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
organized knowledge
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
idealist metaphysics
responsibility theory
22. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
pragmatism
Peterson
Golden Mean and habit
23. Technology is not always a __________.
conceptual mapping
revelation
Blessing
criticism of latin
24. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
actuality
aesthetics
ordinary language analysis
25. 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
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
practical side (CDE pattern)
Memorabilia
26. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
transcendential idealism
Protestant Reformation
Allegory of the Cave
27. 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
Euthydemus
Aristotle
in the home
Pluralism
28. Philosophy is both...?
national government
reader-response theory
controlled transaction
a subject matter and an activity
29. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
metaphysics
existentialist view of education
existentialism
Sparta
30. All knowledge is derived from the senses
First Amendment activists
active
existentialism
empiricism
31. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
idealist metaphysics
virtue
ideal language analysis
32. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
philosophy
complete moral education
fundamental part of teaching
self-knowledge
33. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
dialectic
quadrivium
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Protagoras
34. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
reason for sending child to public school
Great defect in modern education
Tolkein approach
Thoreau
35. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
cognitive-stage theories
synthetic
hubris
Tolkein approach
36. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Arabasis
metaphysics
pragmatism
linguistic descriptions
37. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
responsibility theory
collective Christian mind
Hindu Patheism
in the home
38. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Republic
Stanford University Students
Allegory of the Cave
39. Capability to change in certain ways
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
critique of great texts of western world
reader-response theory
potentiality
40. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
epitome of postmodern person
mirror of society and critic of society
famous attack of medievals
41. Learning is...
Nicomachean Ethics
active
quadrivium
up
42. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Nicomachean Ethics
Integrated Education
mirror of society and critic of society
fundamental part of teaching
43. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Isocrates
Sparta
Order of Trivium
44. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
self-knowledge
Isocrates
Athens
Antidosis
45. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
metaphysics
Aristotle
self-knowledge
46. Good and evil in constant battle
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Against the Sophists
subjective idealism
Cosmic dualism
47. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Great defect in modern education
Canon
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
controlled transaction
48. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
socratic method
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Panathenaicus
famous attack of medievals
49. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
existence precedes essence
theoretical issues
Plato
50. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
Plato and the arts
ordinary language analysis
Aristotle
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories