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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Technology is not always a __________.
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
reader-response theory
Blessing
Golden Mean and habit
2. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Experimentalist values
Panathenaicus
Monkey Trial
3. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
difference between leisure and amusement
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
cultural literacy
experimentalist aesthetic view
4. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Thoreau
existentialist aesthetics
Isocrates
Laws
5. 3 traditional philosophies of education
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
casuity
Latin
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
6. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
general education
philosophical analysis
Outmoded
Sigmund Freud
7. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
arete
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
fundamental part of teaching
8. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
happiness
Trivium and Quadrivium
truth from narratives and story-telling
confidence
9. Portion of being
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
fundamental part of teaching
Leisure
actuality
10. Aspect which makes something tangible
sauromatides
Thoreau
matter
quadrivium
11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
idealist theory of education
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
virtue
12. Capability to change in certain ways
aesthetics
potentiality
in the home
conceptual mapping
13. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Naturalist aim of education
Individual Christian mind
synthetic
14. The 'love of wisdom'
existentialism
philosophy
Protagorean rationale for general education
Thoreau
15. 'What is good?'
ethics
Materialism
Herodotus
rejected
16. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Protagorean rationale for general education
arete
hairsplitting
17. 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
Memorabilia
Great defect in modern education
critique of great texts of western world
Athens
18. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
naturalism
cognitive-stage theories
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
19. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
experimentalist aesthetic view
Hindu Patheism
sauromatides
existence precedes essence
20. 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
Republic
rhetoric
actuality
embrace them intellectually
21. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Cosmic dualism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Order of Trivium
Tenure
22. List of works that have always been studied
tradition of liberal arts education
Nicocles
Canon
hairsplitting
23. Stress self-expression
up
maturational theories
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Laws
24. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
xenophon
experiential
experimentalist aesthetic view
categorical imperative
25. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
sauromatides
fundamental part of teaching
Criticism of existentialism
Jacques Derrida
26. To teach men how to learn for themselves
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
sole true end of education
Antidosis
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
27. World is permeated by divine essence
Antidosis
up
existentialism
Hindu Patheism
28. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Cosmic dualism
Postmodernity educational practice
descriptive
Aristotle
29. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
empirical analytics
Canon
happiness
mirror of society and critic of society
30. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
national government
noetic powers
in the home
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
31. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Arabasis
synthetic
Jacques Derrida
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
32. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
local government
Essence
socratic method
complete moral education
33. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
up
Tolkein approach
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Outmoded
34. Most famous multiculturalist project
metaphysics
Athens
Abraham Lincoln
critique of great texts of western world
35. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
existence precedes essence
practical issues
Athens
36. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
hallmark of liberal arts education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Naturalism
Neil Postman
37. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
theoretical issues
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
38. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
transcendential idealism
Herodotus
rejected
39. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
postmodernity
xenophon
theoretical issues
40. Philosophy is both...?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
experiential
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
a subject matter and an activity
41. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
religious zealots
hallmark of liberal arts education
Amish
virtue
42. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Stanford University Students
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Memorabilia
analysis
43. Good and evil in constant battle
leaner-centered approach
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
practical side (CDE pattern)
Cosmic dualism
44. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
ethics
California and Texas
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Naturalist aim of education
45. Two categories of axiology
Middle Ages
ethics and aesthetics
preciseness
Tolkein approach
46. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
dogmatic theory
happiness
Canon
47. 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
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Arabasis
subjective idealism
Nicocles
48. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
John Dewey
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
49. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
linguistic descriptions
Tolkein approach
Isocrates
50. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
metaphysics
organized knowledge
national government