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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
metaphysics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
idealist metaphysics
2. 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
existentialism
Liberally educated person
naturalism
Zeno
3. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
leaner-centered approach
noetic powers
Isocrates
4. What is a 'DWEM'?
Isocrates
goal of empiricism
noetic powers
Dead White European Male
5. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Abraham Lincoln
organized knowledge
analysis
general education
6. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
revelation
cultural literacy
Peterson
reader-response theory
7. 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
controlled transaction
theoretical issues
Protagoras
Against the Sophists
8. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
First Amendment activists
naturalistic cosmotogies
postermodernist literary ideas
9. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
scholastic
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernism
10. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
Panathenaicus
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Family
11. What was created to protect academic freedom?
paideia
Tenure
linguistic descriptions
philosophy
12. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
criticism of latin
hubris
pragmatism
axiology
13. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
X Generation
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
existentialism
Materialism
14. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
hairsplitting
pragmatism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
national government
15. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
naturalistic cosmotogies
Experimentalist aesthetics
Isocrates
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
16. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
responsibility theory
Sparta
17. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
Latin
Platonic concept of education
pragmatism
18. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
a healthy Christian theism
Epistemology
Dorian music
socratic method
19. Concept of the beautiful
transcendential idealism
aesthetics
philosophy
hallmark of liberal arts education
20. What the medievals are criticized for
Leisure
scholastic
hairsplitting
Amish
21. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
up
Platonic concept of education
critique of great texts of western world
Criticism of existentialism
22. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
pure secularism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
postmodernism
23. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
paideia
First Amendment activists
liberation to truth
idealist metaphysics
24. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
happiness
Allegory of the Cave
pure secularism
Sophists
25. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
paideia
Great defect in modern education
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Nicomachean Ethics
26. Father of History
pragmatism
Experimentalist view of education
Herodotus
idealist metaphysics
27. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Canon
quadrivium
collective Christian mind
leaner-centered approach
28. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
only adequate education
reason for sending child to public school
Xenophon
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
29. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
normative
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
metaphysics
30. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
categorical imperative
Abraham Lincoln
organized knowledge
paideia
31. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
socialization theories
responsibility theory
naturalism
philosophy of education
32. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Against the Sophists
Amish
Pluralism
Order of Trivium
33. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Justice and meritocracy
Isocrates
Abraham Joshua Heschel
embrace them intellectually
34. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
responsibility theory
naturalistic cosmotogies
idealist value theory
35. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
ages that Trivium should be used
general education
Hellenica
36. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
Key elements of Greek education
ideal language analysis
xenophon
Sigmund Freud
37. Nature of any given thing
Materialism
pure secularism
Essence
hallmark of liberal arts education
38. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
undergraduate schools
Abraham Lincoln
Peterson
39. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
mirror of society and critic of society
analytic
postmodernity
responsibility theory
40. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
postmodernist theory of education
Leisure
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Neo-Platonism
41. Philosophy is both...?
flute
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
a subject matter and an activity
Aristotle
42. Music should be studied with a view to what?
reason for sending child to public school
Against the Sophists
Aristotle
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
43. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
form
quadrivium
postermodernist literary ideas
Criticism of existentialism
44. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
experimentalist aesthetic view
Naturalism vs. Christianity
organized knowledge
theistic wing of existentialism
45. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
empiricism
Neil Postman
reader-response theory
Individual Christian mind
46. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
Peterson
Epistemology
Isocrates
47. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
local government
Latin
X Generation
Tenure
48. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
socialization theories
practical issues
socratic method
Memorabilia
49. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
postmodernist aesthetics
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophy of education
Middle Ages
50. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
linguistic descriptions
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
naturalism
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