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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. One that shapes the whole person
Aristotle
only adequate education
Naturalist aim of education
Latin
2. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Sir Francis Bacon
California and Texas
postmodernist aesthetics
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
3. 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
general education
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
fundamental part of teaching
Blessing
4. 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
Protagoras
Socrates
Socratic method
logic
5. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
aesthetics
Postmodernity educational practice
California and Texas
responsibility theory
6. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Abraham Joshua Heschel
goal of liberal education
Zeno
actuality
7. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
metaphysics
philosophical idealist
Essence
8. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
cognitive-stage theories
Aristotle
quadrivium
Athens
9. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Family
Platonic concept of education
dialectic
flute
10. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
rejected
Protagoras
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
philosophy of education
11. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
hubris
Epicurus
Criticism of existentialism
Athens
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
postmodernist theory of education
transcendential idealism
Integrated Education
conceptual mapping
13. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
xenophon
Sophists
Athens
Thoreau
14. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Dead White European Male
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
quadrivium
15. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
particularism
philosophy of education
Isocrates
Republic
16. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
worldview
Republic
First Amendment activists
Jacques Derrida
17. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Aristotle
Xenophon
postmodernity
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
18. 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
ordinary language analysis
analytic philosophy
synthetic
Trivium and Quadrivium
19. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
reader-response theory
experiential
idealist theory of education
linguistic descriptions
20. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
experiential
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
practical issues
division of controversial issues
21. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
rejected
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Dorian music
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
22. How was ancient Greece divided?
trivium
self-knowledge
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
23. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Protagoras
rhetoric
philosophical idealist
Plato
24. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Plato
California and Texas
Epistemology
Integrated Education
25. Good and evil in constant battle
Herodotus
liberal education and career training
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Cosmic dualism
26. The 'love of wisdom'
Experimentalist values
Great defect in modern education
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy
27. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
theistic wing of existentialism
Individual Christian mind
28. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Strict neutrality
famous attack of medievals
confidence
Kant and George Berkeley
29. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
Outmoded
Epicurus
existentialism
30. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Tenure
arete
Epistemology
normative philosophy of education
31. 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
Neil Postman
practical side (CDE pattern)
analysis
idealist metaphysics
32. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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33. 'What is valuable?'
Epicurus
reader-response theory
Athens and Sparta
axiology
34. Capability to change in certain ways
goal of liberal education
vocational training
potentiality
Abraham Lincoln
35. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Integrated Education
practical issues
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Arabasis
36. 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
Isocrates
Sir Francis Bacon
axiology
Plato and the arts
37. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
modernity
Panathenaicus
goal of empiricism
a healthy Christian theism
38. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
Euthydemus
Experimentalist values
complete moral education
39. Nature of any given thing
worldview
Essence
fundamental part of teaching
multiculturalism
40. 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
Aristotle
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Cosmic dualism
responsibility theory
41. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
Lyceum
rejected
Politics
42. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Hellenica
Socrates
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
subjective idealism
43. 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
Liberally educated person
pragmatism
atheistic wing of existentialism
Experimentalist aesthetics
44. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
state
Athens
conceptual mapping
Theology
45. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
pragmatism
Antidosis
tradition of liberal arts education
practical issues
46. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
existence precedes essence
Integrated Education
rhetoric
Protagoras
47. World is an emanation of God's own being
existentialism
Neo-Platonism
normative philosophy of education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
48. Father of History
arete
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Herodotus
a subject matter and an activity
49. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
trivium
Peterson
empiricism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
50. Most famous multiculturalist project
Experimentalist aesthetics
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
critique of great texts of western world
Amish