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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Lyceum
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
ages that Trivium should be used
2. 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
Laws
Great defect in modern education
Kant and George Berkeley
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
3. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Tenure
Antidosis
Experimentalist view of education
Athens
4. 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
postmodernist theory of education
Dead White European Male
paideia
Panathenaicus
5. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
hallmark of liberal arts education
Euthydemus
dialectic
6. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
truth from narratives and story-telling
Euthydemus
Monkey Trial
7. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
Against the Sophists
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Plato
8. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
matter
hubris
Politics
Antidosis
9. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
Individual Christian mind
Naturalist aim of education
liberation to truth
10. Capability to change in certain ways
ages that Trivium should be used
potentiality
naturalism
Sparta
11. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
epitome of postmodern person
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Athens
12. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
existence precedes essence
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Sophists
13. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Nicocles
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
14. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
pragmatism
descriptive
vocational training
only adequate education
15. Nature of any given thing
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Thomistic realism
Essence
16. 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?'
Epicurus
cultural literacy
Key elements of Greek education
Kant and George Berkeley
17. What do Americans have the most of in education?
goal of liberal education
confidence
Tenure
particularism
18. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Against the Sophists
idealist metaphysics
maturational theories
local government
19. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
Allegory of the Cave
Liberally educated person
Stanford University Students
empirical analytics
20. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Latin
religious zealots
linguistic descriptions
philosophical idealist
21. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Protagorean rationale for general education
Pluralism
synthetic
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
22. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
national government
Thomistic realism
ordinary language analysis
a healthy Christian theism
23. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Key elements of Greek education
Sigmund Freud
theoretical issues
ethics and aesthetics
24. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
Isocrates
Thomistic realism
Stanley Fish
25. Started naturalism
naturalism
leaner-centered approach
Sir Francis Bacon
liberal learning
26. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Sir Francis Bacon
Justice and meritocracy
27. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
goal of liberal education
analytic
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
logic
28. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Kant and George Berkeley
famous attack of medievals
cultural literacy
liberal learning
29. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
active
leaner-centered approach
rejected
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
30. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Order of Trivium
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
idealist value theory
analysis
31. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
logic
Kant and George Berkeley
Nicomachean Ethics
32. Children born from 1981-1999
Liberally educated person
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Thomistic realism
Nicomachean Ethics
33. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving
general education
Sparta
Sophists
preciseness
34. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
synthetic
Sophists
in the home
35. 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
fundamental part of teaching
Antidosis
John Dewey
36. Consisted of subjects
state
Quadrivium
up
general education
37. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
virtue
Naturalism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Key elements of Greek education
38. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
Strict neutrality
epitome of postmodern person
Arabasis
39. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
state
famous attack of medievals
Amish
casuity
40. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
Aristotle
Family
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
41. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
preciseness
hallmark of liberal arts education
Modernity
existentialist aesthetics
42. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
arete
preciseness
famous attack of medievals
actuality
43. Martin Luther; John Calvin
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Protestant Reformation
complete moral education
Xenophon
44. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
particularism
analytic philosophy
Blessing
metaphysics
45. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
empiricism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
existentialist view of education
Sophists
46. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
multiculturalism
organized knowledge
Naturalist aim of education
Isocrates
47. 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
Republic
national government
Stanford University Students
Nicomachean Ethics
48. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Postmodernity educational practice
Isocrates
local government
a healthy Christian theism
49. 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
analysis
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
analytic philosophy
Socrates
50. 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
Athens
ethics
in the home
Epistemology