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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Aspect which makes something tangible
normative philosophy of education
Dead White European Male
Xenophon
matter
2. What the medievals are criticized for
undergraduate schools
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
hairsplitting
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
3. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Liberally educated person
logic
famous attack of medievals
Materialism
4. 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
socratic method
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
analytic philosophy
Quadrivium
5. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
X Generation
practical issues
Blessing
Nicomachean Ethics
6. 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
Kant and George Berkeley
Order of Trivium
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Dead White European Male
7. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
controlled transaction
particularism
liberation to truth
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
8. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
organized knowledge
Strict neutrality
general education
Protagoras
9. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Experimentalist view of education
existentialism
actuality
naturalism
10. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
trivium
theoretical issues
idealist value theory
11. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
Sir Francis Bacon
Laws
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
complete moral education
12. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
philosophical analysis
noetic powers
vocational training
ages that Trivium should be used
13. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Essence
postmodernist theory of education
Plato
Stanley Fish
14. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
casuity
form
Stanford University Students
xenophon
15. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Quadrivium
Amish
ethics
Blessing
16. 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
multiculturalism
difference between leisure and amusement
Abraham Lincoln
Golden Mean and habit
17. World is an emanation of God's own being
Plato
Experimentalist aesthetics
Neo-Platonism
Tenure
18. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
Protagoras
Dead White European Male
experimentalist aesthetic view
confidence
19. Nature of any given thing
Essence
reason for sending child to public school
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Hellenica
20. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
Against the Sophists
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
religious zealots
21. 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
naturalism
flute
Nicocles
Order of Trivium
22. Quintessential educated medieval person
general education
scholastic
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Canon
23. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
rhetoric
liberal education and career training
up
Essence
24. 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
Politics
Republic
multiculturalism
religious zealots
25. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
philosophical idealist
state
liberation to truth
26. 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
local government
casuity
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Athens
27. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Outmoded
cultural literacy
truth from narratives and story-telling
Postmodernity educational practice
28. It is a dead language
empirical analytics
cognitive
Abraham Lincoln
criticism of latin
29. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Zeno
X Generation
Neil Postman
Experimentalist aesthetics
30. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
postmodernist theory of education
Stanford University Students
rhetoric
analytic philosophy
31. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
naturalism
collective Christian mind
Essence
32. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Golden Mean and habit
theoretical issues
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
xenophon
33. What Greeks mostly focused on
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
reason
synthetic
Naturalism
34. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
form
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
transcendential idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
35. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
noetic powers
descriptive
critique of great texts of western world
normative philosophy of education
36. 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
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Socratic method
Latin
Aristotle
37. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
postmodernist aesthetics
Essence
existentialism
Athens and Sparta
38. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
innoculation method
metaphysics
Sparta
Stanley Fish
39. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
actuality
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Integrated Education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
40. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
religious zealots
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Against the Sophists
Protagorean rationale for general education
41. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
California and Texas
categorical imperative
ethics
truth from narratives and story-telling
42. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Xenophon
Aristotle
Zeno
43. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Dead White European Male
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Trivium and Quadrivium
X Generation
44. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
Allegory of the Cave
modernity
Republic
45. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
Order of Trivium
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
flute
46. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
embrace them intellectually
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Isocrates
Protagoras
47. General ideas about education and their logical implications
self-knowledge
theoretical issues
Laws
vocational training
48. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
controlled transaction
X Generation
Abraham Joshua Heschel
tradition of liberal arts education
49. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
John Dewey
Protagorean rationale for general education
analytic
existentialist view of education
50. Socrates' ultimate goal
paideia
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
virtue
difference between leisure and amusement