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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
innoculation method
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
2. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
existentialism
Laws
reason for sending child to public school
Against the Sophists
3. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
liberal learning
conceptual mapping
aesthetics
transcendential idealism
4. List of works that have always been studied
idealist metaphysics
Canon
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
metaphysics
5. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
synthetic
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Plato
Memorabilia
6. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
Epicurus
leaner-centered approach
categorical imperative
Euthydemus
7. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
arete
Hellenica
Leisure
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
8. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Memorabilia
Arabasis
conceptual mapping
Euthydemus
9. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
general education
transcendential idealism
dialectic
preciseness
10. 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)
Memorabilia
normative philosophy of education
existentialism
Neo-Platonism
11. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
scholastic
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
embrace them intellectually
Aristotle
12. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Isocrates
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
truth from narratives and story-telling
13. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Hellenica
national government
general education
Experimentalist aesthetics
14. Experience is reality; activity-based
virtue
worldview
pragmatism
First Amendment activists
15. Nature of any given thing
consumerism
Essence
Naturalist aim of education
Allegory of the Cave
16. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
a healthy Christian theism
complete moral education
responsibility theory
liberation to truth
17. Concept of the beautiful
Athens and Sparta
organized knowledge
aesthetics
Middle Ages
18. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
Memorabilia
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
experiential
19. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
logic
pragmatism
particularism
general education
20. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
state
division of controversial issues
goal of liberal education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
21. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
tradition of liberal arts education
paideia
religious zealots
Tolkein approach
22. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
postmodernist aesthetics
Justice and meritocracy
Theology
practical side (CDE pattern)
23. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Trivium and Quadrivium
Sir Francis Bacon
Latin
Naturalist aim of education
24. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
Republic
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Nicocles
25. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
mirror of society and critic of society
existence precedes essence
Protagoras
particularism
26. Stress self-expression
reason for sending child to public school
liberal learning
maturational theories
Laws
27. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Modernity
theoretical issues
socialization theories
quadrivium
28. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
normative
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
up
29. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
collective Christian mind
Outmoded
Protagoras
30. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
existentialist view of education
difference between leisure and amusement
Stanford University Students
experiential
31. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
axiology
actuality
up
Aristotle
32. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
Key elements of Greek education
Neil Postman
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
multiculturalism
33. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
sauromatides
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
empirical analytics
34. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
Liberally educated person
ideal language analysis
experiential
35. What medievals focused on
Antidosis
Key elements of Greek education
revelation
goal of empiricism
36. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Quadrivium
preciseness
X Generation
socialization theories
37. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
normative
existentialism
Naturalist aim of education
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
38. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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39. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Dorian music
Dead White European Male
Allegory of the Cave
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
40. Learning is...
Sir Francis Bacon
descriptive
Aristotle
active
41. The 'love of wisdom'
rhetoric
naturalism
value neutrality
philosophy
42. Use women more as slaves
Abraham Joshua Heschel
philosophy
Thracians
responsibility theory
43. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
synthetic
idealist theory of education
national government
philosophical analysis
44. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
rejected
modernity
experiential
45. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
active
quadrivium
particularism
Individual Christian mind
46. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Isocrates
ethics and aesthetics
Naturalism vs. Christianity
famous attack of medievals
47. 'What is good?'
form
existence precedes essence
Justice and meritocracy
ethics
48. Two main philosophers of idealism
philosophy as a subject matter
hallmark of liberal arts education
Kant and George Berkeley
socialization theories
49. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
practical issues
descriptive
sole true end of education
socialization theories
50. Father of History
normative philosophy of education
active
empirical analytics
Herodotus