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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. The 'love of wisdom'
Antidosis
philosophy
existentialism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
2. Kant's general form of moral law
existence precedes essence
hallmark of liberal arts education
Xenophon
categorical imperative
3. 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
metaphysics
Naturalism
Nicomachean Ethics
Jacques Derrida
4. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Stanley Fish
Key elements of Greek education
in the home
naturalism
5. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
California and Texas
goal of empiricism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
a healthy Christian theism
6. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
collective Christian mind
complete moral education
sole true end of education
Epicurus
7. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
Epistemology
Isocrates
innoculation method
happiness
8. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
value neutrality
Stanford University Students
liberation to truth
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
9. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Cosmic dualism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Criticism of existentialism
Platonic concept of education
10. 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
Euthydemus
normative
Nicocles
existentialist aesthetics
11. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
pragmatism
Latin
Individual Christian mind
subjective idealism
12. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
philosophy of education
Arabasis
Aristotle
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
13. 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
pragmatism
general education
metaphysics
ethics
14. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
Panathenaicus
Plato
Family
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
15. Socrates' ultimate goal
experimentalist aesthetic view
Latin
Athens
virtue
16. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
Key elements of Greek education
pure secularism
modernity
17. 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
practical side (CDE pattern)
sole true end of education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
18. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
truth from narratives and story-telling
virtue
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Athens and Sparta
19. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
general education
Stanford University Students
Xenophon
modernity
20. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Aristotle
idealist theory of education
general education
Key elements of Greek education
21. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Jacques Derrida
Amish
ethics
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
22. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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23. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
matter
Sir Francis Bacon
quadrivium
24. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
transcendential idealism
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Lyceum
25. It is a dead language
Naturalist aim of education
criticism of latin
state
actuality
26. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
logic
rejected
philosophy of education
ideal language analysis
27. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Dead White European Male
Tolkein approach
normative philosophy of education
Politics
28. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
Panathenaicus
quadrivium
responsibility theory
logic
29. 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
John Dewey
xenophon
potentiality
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
30. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
local government
ages that Trivium should be used
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
First Amendment activists
31. List of works that have always been studied
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
descriptive
Canon
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
32. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
complete moral education
actuality
reader-response theory
practical side (CDE pattern)
33. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Thoreau
hallmark of liberal arts education
Naturalism
Naturalist aim of education
34. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Isocrates
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
postmodernist aesthetics
philosophy as a subject matter
35. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
Socratic method
hubris
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
36. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
innoculation method
actuality
Nicocles
37. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
Quadrivium
xenophon
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
38. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
mirror of society and critic of society
pragmatism
particularism
existentialist view of education
39. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
reason
ages that Trivium should be used
Epistemology
40. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
goal of liberal education
state
actuality
41. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
existentialism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
transcendential idealism
Sir Francis Bacon
42. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
existence precedes essence
hubris
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Politics
43. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
hallmark of liberal arts education
Cosmic dualism
Experimentalist view of education
Plato and the arts
44. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
Justice and meritocracy
Protestant Reformation
religious zealots
45. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Justice and meritocracy
national government
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Platonic concept of education
46. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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47. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Cosmic dualism
normative
Modernity
Naturalist aim of education
48. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
ethics
theistic wing of existentialism
Thoreau
idealist metaphysics
49. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Isocrates
Aristotle
dialectic
a healthy Christian theism
50. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Thoreau
active
Key elements of Greek education
a healthy Christian theism