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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Categories of philosophy as an activity
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Golden Mean and habit
Abraham Lincoln
reader-response theory
2. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Golden Mean and habit
Abraham Lincoln
socratic method
logic
3. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Isocrates
Outmoded
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
4. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Protagoras
cognitive-stage theories
Leisure
5. 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
idealist theory of education
metaphysics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Laws
6. Technology is not always a __________.
empiricism
ethics
Epistemology
Blessing
7. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
general education
Thoreau
maturational theories
Hellenica
8. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
vocational training
Latin
philosophy as a subject matter
liberation to truth
9. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Zeno
pure secularism
Dead White European Male
active
10. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Thomistic realism
arete
conceptual mapping
11. Started naturalism
Experimentalist values
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
analytic philosophy
Sir Francis Bacon
12. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
theistic wing of existentialism
existentialism
philosophy as a subject matter
idealist metaphysics
13. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
sauromatides
reason for sending child to public school
California and Texas
vocational training
14. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
hubris
Antidosis
postermodernist literary ideas
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
15. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Arabasis
Xenophon
16. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Tenure
existentialism
Modernity
metaphysics
17. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
revelation
goal of empiricism
flute
Jacques Derrida
18. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
actuality
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
casuity
dogmatic theory
19. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
Canon
Athens and Sparta
hallmark of liberal arts education
20. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
rhetoric
form
reason for sending child to public school
Thomistic realism
21. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
rejected
Protagorean rationale for general education
Individual Christian mind
linguistic descriptions
22. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
Aristotle
Protestant Reformation
happiness
23. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
hubris
goal of empiricism
Euthydemus
24. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
subjective idealism
up
Criticism of existentialism
25. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
a healthy Christian theism
Strict neutrality
Epistemology
Justice and meritocracy
26. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
sauromatides
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
existentialist view of education
innoculation method
27. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Sparta
idealist value theory
Protestant Reformation
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
28. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Epicurus
descriptive
vocational training
29. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Athens
Politics
undergraduate schools
worldview
30. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
Dead White European Male
xenophon
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
31. World is permeated by divine essence
liberal learning
Hindu Patheism
dialectic
pragmatism
32. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Amish
metaphysics
undergraduate schools
Blessing
33. 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
postmodernism
Tenure
complete moral education
ordinary language analysis
34. Stress self-expression
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
maturational theories
Blessing
idealist value theory
35. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Euthydemus
Thracians
hallmark of liberal arts education
36. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Thomistic realism
normative philosophy of education
37. Use women more as slaves
trivium
Liberally educated person
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Thracians
38. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Platonic concept of education
national government
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
39. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
national government
complete moral education
practical side (CDE pattern)
Integrated Education
40. No God
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Tenure
Hellenica
Naturalism vs. Christianity
41. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
naturalism
fundamental part of teaching
42. 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
leaner-centered approach
naturalism
actuality
43. 'What is good?'
embrace them intellectually
ethics
Isocrates
leaner-centered approach
44. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
ages that Trivium should be used
self-knowledge
Dead White European Male
45. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Politics
Sir Francis Bacon
Laws
Platonic concept of education
46. List of works that have always been studied
actuality
Canon
Neil Postman
reason
47. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
axiology
existentialist view of education
existentialism
Aristotle
48. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
only adequate education
linguistic descriptions
Stanley Fish
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
49. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
Dead White European Male
Dorian music
naturalistic cosmotogies
50. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
critique of great texts of western world
Canon
Modernity
Protagoras