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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Middle Ages
Postmodernity educational practice
2. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
aesthetics
hubris
Experimentalist view of education
Tenure
3. 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
Experimentalist values
Great defect in modern education
normative
4. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
collective Christian mind
goal of liberal education
value neutrality
5. 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;
idealist value theory
Sophists
postmodernism
leaner-centered approach
6. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
existentialist aesthetics
cultural literacy
analysis
Justice and meritocracy
7. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
sole true end of education
8. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
local government
Epicurus
existentialism
Aristotle
9. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
embrace them intellectually
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Laws
Theology
10. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
pure secularism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Thoreau
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
11. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
particularism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
flute
philosophy
12. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Tolkein approach
responsibility theory
sole true end of education
Plato
13. 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
Politics
worldview
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
existentialism
14. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
aesthetics
practical issues
Zeno
15. What the medievals are criticized for
Abraham Joshua Heschel
hairsplitting
organized knowledge
value neutrality
16. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal education and career training
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
liberal learning
17. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
trivium
actuality
socialization theories
18. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Plato
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
philosophy
19. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
philosophical analysis
fundamental part of teaching
ages that Trivium should be used
only adequate education
20. The 'love of wisdom'
Strict neutrality
ethics and aesthetics
philosophy
self-knowledge
21. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
metaphysics
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Golden Mean and habit
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
22. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
Experimentalist aesthetics
idealist theory of education
analytic philosophy
liberal education and career training
23. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
goal of empiricism
analytic
idealist value theory
a healthy Christian theism
24. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Quadrivium
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
25. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
rhetoric
general education
flute
theoretical issues
26. Two categories of axiology
Xenophon
philosophical idealist
Laws
ethics and aesthetics
27. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
scholastic
reason
xenophon
28. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Family
Peterson
Criticism of existentialism
metaphysics
29. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophical idealist
Protagorean rationale for general education
philosophy of education
Republic
30. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
existentialism
a healthy Christian theism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
31. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
innoculation method
Memorabilia
Plato and the arts
Arabasis
32. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
mirror of society and critic of society
Integrated Education
Stanford University Students
33. Philosophy is both...?
Republic
analysis
ordinary language analysis
a subject matter and an activity
34. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Politics
Epistemology
Modernity
35. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
ideal language analysis
conceptual mapping
Peterson
general education
36. Academic freedom does not mean _______
embrace them intellectually
Strict neutrality
fundamental part of teaching
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
37. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Integrated Education
Aristotle
dialectic
actuality
38. Experience is reality; activity-based
pragmatism
practical issues
Materialism
Experimentalist view of education
39. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
rhetoric
Euthydemus
Sparta
goal of empiricism
40. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
Experimentalist aesthetics
reader-response theory
undergraduate schools
existentialism
41. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Neil Postman
philosophy as a subject matter
division of controversial issues
Hindu Patheism
42. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Liberally educated person
arete
existence precedes essence
Aristotle
43. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Euthydemus
philosophical analysis
philosophical idealist
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
44. 1600s; get to truth through science
Essence
ordinary language analysis
trivium
modernity
45. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
reason for sending child to public school
Monkey Trial
Aristotle
rhetoric
46. 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
postmodernist theory of education
Essence
Nicomachean Ethics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
47. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Strict neutrality
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
responsibility theory
reason for sending child to public school
48. What is the building block of civilization?
particularism
Family
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
preciseness
49. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
categorical imperative
Thracians
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
liberation to truth
50. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Protagoras
analytic
postmodernity
Hindu Patheism