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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
naturalism
Integrated Education
2. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Stanford University Students
Stanley Fish
3. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
analytic philosophy
epitome of postmodern person
fundamental part of teaching
transcendential idealism
4. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Sparta
Golden Mean and habit
Neo-Platonism
tradition of liberal arts education
5. 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
Plato and the arts
Kant and George Berkeley
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
rhetoric
6. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
worldview
goal of empiricism
Protagorean rationale for general education
scholastic
7. How was ancient Greece divided?
reason
Experimentalist values
state
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
8. Portion of being
actuality
Latin
theistic wing of existentialism
organized knowledge
9. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Liberally educated person
pragmatism
Athens
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
10. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
dialectic
Platonic concept of education
naturalistic cosmotogies
Laws
11. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
quadrivium
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Naturalist aim of education
12. Learning is...
Naturalist aim of education
Family
active
theoretical issues
13. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
idealist value theory
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
worldview
Thomistic realism
14. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Modernity
empiricism
Liberally educated person
Socratic method
15. Theoretical issues and practical issues
division of controversial issues
Aristotle
Stanley Fish
conceptual mapping
16. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
socialization theories
postmodernity
ideal language analysis
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
17. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Nicomachean Ethics
Memorabilia
axiology
18. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
normative philosophy of education
idealist theory of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
analytic philosophy
19. 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
critique of great texts of western world
Neo-Platonism
idealist metaphysics
Euthydemus
20. No God
Antidosis
Naturalism vs. Christianity
value neutrality
Xenophon
21. 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
Sigmund Freud
philosophical analysis
linguistic descriptions
22. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
synthetic
existentialist view of education
responsibility theory
Herodotus
23. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
existentialism
a subject matter and an activity
collective Christian mind
Stanley Fish
24. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
existentialism
Laws
division of controversial issues
25. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
cultural literacy
Criticism of existentialism
liberation to truth
26. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Socratic method
multiculturalism
27. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
quadrivium
goal of empiricism
consumerism
John Dewey
28. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
empiricism
Tenure
Dorian music
29. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Athens and Sparta
philosophy
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Materialism
30. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
hairsplitting
naturalistic cosmotogies
existentialist view of education
31. What do Americans have the most of in education?
controlled transaction
Panathenaicus
religious zealots
confidence
32. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Nicomachean Ethics
postmodernity
Stanford University Students
Protestant Reformation
33. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
Aristotle
Sigmund Freud
Sparta
Thomistic realism
34. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Golden Mean and habit
postmodernism
Family
35. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
pure secularism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Memorabilia
36. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
normative philosophy of education
preciseness
Sparta
37. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Protagoras
Epistemology
38. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
modernity
Isocrates
empiricism
experimentalist aesthetic view
39. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
scholastic
Lyceum
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Justice and meritocracy
40. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
synthetic
fundamental part of teaching
atheistic wing of existentialism
scholastic
41. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
transcendential idealism
postmodernity
synthetic
Nicocles
42. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Epicurus
fundamental part of teaching
state
43. General ideas about education and their logical implications
theoretical issues
postmodernist theory of education
categorical imperative
Aristotle
44. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Socrates
innoculation method
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
45. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Neo-Platonism
Aristotle
general education
Politics
46. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Experimentalist values
a subject matter and an activity
Tolkein approach
Outmoded
47. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Neo-Platonism
Theology
California and Texas
48. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
tradition of liberal arts education
experiential
Justice and meritocracy
trivium
49. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Quadrivium
epitome of postmodern person
Laws
Thoreau
50. Use women more as slaves
up
Thracians
experimentalist aesthetic view
normative philosophy of education