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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Quintessential educated medieval person
experiential
existentialism
scholastic
vocational training
2. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
naturalistic cosmotogies
Criticism of existentialism
Integrated Education
3. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
happiness
trivium
Protestant Reformation
4. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
xenophon
Herodotus
Experimentalist view of education
Individual Christian mind
5. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
ideal language analysis
Memorabilia
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Experimentalist aesthetics
6. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
innoculation method
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Key elements of Greek education
philosophy
7. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
analytic philosophy
postmodernism
postmodernity
8. Portion of being
Thracians
Essence
actuality
aesthetics
9. Consisted of subjects
innoculation method
undergraduate schools
postermodernist literary ideas
Quadrivium
10. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
virtue
general education
Materialism
complete moral education
11. 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
philosophy as a subject matter
difference between leisure and amusement
general education
goal of liberal education
12. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
truth from narratives and story-telling
Republic
experiential
13. Nature of any given thing
Essence
ordinary language analysis
Amish
existentialist aesthetics
14. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
undergraduate schools
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Abraham Lincoln
15. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
theoretical issues
ideal language analysis
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
16. 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
actuality
Politics
Jacques Derrida
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
17. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
preciseness
leaner-centered approach
existentialism
18. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Socratic method
form
19. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
postmodernist aesthetics
Lyceum
controlled transaction
20. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
existentialist aesthetics
Thoreau
Athens
21. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
postmodernism
Platonic concept of education
atheistic wing of existentialism
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
22. 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)
noetic powers
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
local government
existentialism
23. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
in the home
up
confidence
sole true end of education
24. Academic freedom does not mean _______
sauromatides
Strict neutrality
a healthy Christian theism
in the home
25. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
philosophical idealist
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Socrates
ages that Trivium should be used
26. One that shapes the whole person
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
only adequate education
analytic philosophy
27. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
philosophy of education
flute
idealist metaphysics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
28. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
subjective idealism
Nicomachean Ethics
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
29. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Abraham Lincoln
flute
Pluralism
a subject matter and an activity
30. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Theology
Epicurus
metaphysics
practical side (CDE pattern)
31. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
confidence
Isocrates
dialectic
32. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
hubris
Key elements of Greek education
Family
responsibility theory
33. 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
trivium
Great defect in modern education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
34. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Thracians
Politics
philosophical idealist
hallmark of liberal arts education
35. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
empirical analytics
existentialism
leaner-centered approach
36. 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
liberal learning
aesthetics
Socrates
division of controversial issues
37. Knowledge most worth having
multiculturalism
liberal learning
self-knowledge
Against the Sophists
38. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Platonic concept of education
rhetoric
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
practical side (CDE pattern)
39. Concept of the beautiful
subjective idealism
Middle Ages
Canon
aesthetics
40. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
descriptive
cognitive
existentialism
ideal language analysis
41. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
Protagorean rationale for general education
Middle Ages
Platonic concept of education
42. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
religious zealots
Tolkein approach
Lyceum
logic
43. 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
Athens
Isocrates
postmodernist aesthetics
Order of Trivium
44. 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
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
ordinary language analysis
Athens
Cosmic dualism
45. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Outmoded
Canon
Hindu Patheism
46. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
descriptive
Middle Ages
pragmatism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
47. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
ethics and aesthetics
analytic philosophy
consumerism
48. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
sauromatides
Tolkein approach
ordinary language analysis
philosophy as a subject matter
49. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
socialization theories
Aristotle
undergraduate schools
postmodernism
50. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
descriptive
Zeno
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'