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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
normative philosophy of education
local government
Aristotle
rejected
2. Children born from 1981-1999
innoculation method
Theology
arete
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
3. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
philosophy as a subject matter
Trivium and Quadrivium
pure secularism
cognitive
4. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
Middle Ages
Liberally educated person
critique of great texts of western world
5. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
confidence
postermodernist literary ideas
Blessing
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
X Generation
Euthydemus
rhetoric
Athens
7. Father of History
Herodotus
ordinary language analysis
analytic philosophy
Peterson
8. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
a subject matter and an activity
Sigmund Freud
epitome of postmodern person
Xenophon
9. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
truth from narratives and story-telling
criticism of latin
10. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
naturalistic cosmotogies
liberal learning
Athens and Sparta
a subject matter and an activity
11. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
postmodernism
naturalism
Republic
confidence
12. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
ordinary language analysis
existentialist aesthetics
socratic method
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
13. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
Plato
Order of Trivium
socialization theories
14. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Jacques Derrida
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
existence precedes essence
philosophy as a subject matter
15. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
only adequate education
Antidosis
cultural literacy
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
16. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Politics
undergraduate schools
postmodernist theory of education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
17. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Arabasis
Tenure
value neutrality
18. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
xenophon
goal of empiricism
Abraham Lincoln
19. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Middle Ages
Theology
worldview
epitome of postmodern person
20. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
California and Texas
Blessing
pragmatism
postmodernist theory of education
21. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
self-knowledge
local government
Naturalist aim of education
famous attack of medievals
22. Two main philosophers of idealism
virtue
ages that Trivium should be used
maturational theories
Kant and George Berkeley
23. 1600s; get to truth through science
atheistic wing of existentialism
undergraduate schools
modernity
ethics
24. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Great defect in modern education
Allegory of the Cave
scholastic
idealist value theory
25. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
rejected
rhetoric
arete
Thoreau
26. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
theistic wing of existentialism
Antidosis
innoculation method
27. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Order of Trivium
Abraham Joshua Heschel
tradition of liberal arts education
only adequate education
28. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Protagoras
matter
flute
arete
29. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
normative
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Euthydemus
fundamental part of teaching
30. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Athens and Sparta
Nicocles
John Dewey
state
31. Kant's general form of moral law
X Generation
Plato and the arts
categorical imperative
Republic
32. Experimentalist students are to be both:
active
normative
Outmoded
mirror of society and critic of society
33. 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
Socrates
Nicomachean Ethics
particularism
atheistic wing of existentialism
34. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
postmodernism
axiology
linguistic descriptions
empirical analytics
35. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
tradition of liberal arts education
categorical imperative
Dorian music
36. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Isocrates
Trivium and Quadrivium
experiential
existentialism
37. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Dorian music
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Plato and the arts
38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
philosophy as a subject matter
value neutrality
in the home
reason for sending child to public school
39. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
pure secularism
up
postmodernism
cognitive
40. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
virtue
truth from narratives and story-telling
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Platonic concept of education
41. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Protestant Reformation
Socratic method
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Isocrates
42. 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
Golden Mean and habit
only adequate education
Liberally educated person
Monkey Trial
43. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
normative
Thracians
normative philosophy of education
44. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
analysis
Integrated Education
45. 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;
Memorabilia
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
postmodernism
axiology
46. 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
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
ordinary language analysis
Republic
a healthy Christian theism
47. Started naturalism
Sir Francis Bacon
casuity
rejected
Canon
48. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Integrated Education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
a healthy Christian theism
logic
49. Experience is reality; activity-based
Politics
postmodernist aesthetics
pragmatism
Criticism of existentialism
50. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
arete
Thomistic realism
Athens
controlled transaction