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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Politics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Tolkein approach
2. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Blessing
postmodernity
sauromatides
ethics
3. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Monkey Trial
Panathenaicus
Xenophon
postermodernist literary ideas
4. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
form
Protagorean rationale for general education
Liberally educated person
ordinary language analysis
5. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
aesthetics
Nicocles
philosophy of education
6. Nature of any given thing
Epicurus
existentialist aesthetics
arete
Essence
7. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Xenophon
Sigmund Freud
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Dorian music
8. Encourages individual choice
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Socrates
existentialism
Zeno
9. 'What is valuable?'
Modernity
xenophon
Hindu Patheism
axiology
10. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
Euthydemus
flute
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
11. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
Euthydemus
postmodernist theory of education
consumerism
12. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
postmodernist theory of education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
pragmatism
13. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
theistic wing of existentialism
Aristotle
transcendential idealism
14. 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
Thracians
Criticism of existentialism
Athens and Sparta
difference between leisure and amusement
15. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
Neo-Platonism
value neutrality
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
16. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
active
Isocrates
Sir Francis Bacon
leaner-centered approach
17. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
virtue
a healthy Christian theism
Strict neutrality
goal of empiricism
18. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
reader-response theory
Middle Ages
Experimentalist aesthetics
Against the Sophists
19. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
goal of empiricism
vocational training
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Plato
20. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
Peterson
Hindu Patheism
Protagorean rationale for general education
21. Knowledge most worth having
confidence
existentialist aesthetics
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
self-knowledge
22. 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
organized knowledge
conceptual mapping
Aristotle
Sir Francis Bacon
23. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
Athens
local government
Nicomachean Ethics
24. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Postmodernity educational practice
collective Christian mind
Experimentalist aesthetics
in the home
25. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
Golden Mean and habit
Protagorean rationale for general education
Socratic method
26. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Cosmic dualism
subjective idealism
particularism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
27. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
noetic powers
in the home
Theology
Nicocles
28. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Naturalism
hairsplitting
collective Christian mind
Trivium and Quadrivium
29. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
pragmatism
Republic
John Dewey
dogmatic theory
30. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Laws
happiness
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
John Dewey
31. 'What is good?'
Cosmic dualism
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
ethics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
32. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Materialism
socialization theories
innoculation method
general education
33. World is permeated by divine essence
active
Experimentalist values
Hindu Patheism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
34. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
liberation to truth
value neutrality
idealist metaphysics
Aristotle
35. Music should be studied with a view to what?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Individual Christian mind
empirical analytics
pure secularism
36. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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37. Consisted of subjects
sole true end of education
Plato
Quadrivium
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
38. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
experiential
Theology
revelation
39. Technology is not always a __________.
metaphysics
postmodernism
famous attack of medievals
Blessing
40. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
matter
Criticism of existentialism
Allegory of the Cave
41. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Hindu Patheism
analytic philosophy
liberal education and career training
flute
42. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Sparta
experimentalist aesthetic view
confidence
sauromatides
43. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Pluralism
empirical analytics
X Generation
controlled transaction
44. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
general education
casuity
Key elements of Greek education
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
45. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Isocrates
conceptual mapping
difference between leisure and amusement
active
46. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Protagoras
Xenophon
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
47. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Sophists
existentialist view of education
noetic powers
Protestant Reformation
48. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
happiness
Outmoded
49. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
pure secularism
postmodernist aesthetics
Modernity
50. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Stanley Fish
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Republic