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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
ordinary language analysis
a healthy Christian theism
Trivium and Quadrivium
existence precedes essence
2. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
dialectic
famous attack of medievals
Platonic concept of education
Experimentalist values
3. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
particularism
Naturalist aim of education
Athens
4. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Socratic method
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Protagoras
5. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
experimentalist aesthetic view
practical issues
tradition of liberal arts education
6. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Nicomachean Ethics
Stanford University Students
ages that Trivium should be used
Latin
7. 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
hubris
pragmatism
synthetic
8. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
virtue
Isocrates
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
collective Christian mind
9. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
Strict neutrality
critique of great texts of western world
arete
10. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
Justice and meritocracy
Criticism of existentialism
difference between leisure and amusement
socratic method
11. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
happiness
up
active
12. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
flute
Laws
Nicomachean Ethics
sole true end of education
13. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Arabasis
philosophy of education
linguistic descriptions
14. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
Tenure
Quadrivium
complete moral education
15. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
Aristotle
value neutrality
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Laws
16. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Athens
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Individual Christian mind
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
17. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
idealist value theory
only adequate education
normative philosophy of education
Peterson
18. Good and evil in constant battle
general education
arete
Aristotle
Cosmic dualism
19. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
existence precedes essence
normative philosophy of education
famous attack of medievals
20. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophy of education
logic
Republic
21. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Athens
Socratic method
analytic
Isocrates
22. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Plato
cognitive
categorical imperative
Neo-Platonism
23. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
normative
existentialism
Epistemology
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
24. 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
self-knowledge
philosophy as a subject matter
Golden Mean and habit
logic
25. Technology is not always a __________.
existentialism
Allegory of the Cave
Blessing
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
26. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Naturalist aim of education
Laws
ideal language analysis
controlled transaction
27. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
active
postmodernism
virtue
28. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
reader-response theory
Isocrates
embrace them intellectually
naturalistic cosmotogies
29. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
linguistic descriptions
descriptive
idealist theory of education
Plato
30. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
practical side (CDE pattern)
Athens
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
synthetic
31. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Thoreau
division of controversial issues
Sophists
conceptual mapping
32. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
ages that Trivium should be used
X Generation
organized knowledge
33. Quintessential educated medieval person
Isocrates
experimentalist aesthetic view
scholastic
only adequate education
34. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
Great defect in modern education
dialectic
Thoreau
controlled transaction
35. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
synthetic
complete moral education
organized knowledge
philosophy as a subject matter
36. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
leaner-centered approach
preciseness
theoretical issues
Experimentalist aesthetics
37. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Thracians
fundamental part of teaching
criticism of latin
38. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
philosophy
Individual Christian mind
Politics
Hellenica
39. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Isocrates
responsibility theory
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
40. Portion of being
actuality
Laws
national government
Kant and George Berkeley
41. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
quadrivium
embrace them intellectually
Stanley Fish
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
42. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
xenophon
Stanley Fish
Athens and Sparta
Amish
43. It is a dead language
Middle Ages
rejected
criticism of latin
a healthy Christian theism
44. Kant's general form of moral law
cognitive
casuity
categorical imperative
Protagoras
45. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
Family
goal of liberal education
philosophy as a subject matter
multiculturalism
46. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
Abraham Lincoln
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
X Generation
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
47. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
atheistic wing of existentialism
hallmark of liberal arts education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
48. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
controlled transaction
Zeno
Experimentalist aesthetics
idealist value theory
49. 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?'
Against the Sophists
Key elements of Greek education
up
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
50. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
categorical imperative
Integrated Education
innoculation method
Socratic method