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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Isocrates
Sophists
Thomistic realism
Epicurus
2. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Dorian music
Great defect in modern education
Leisure
3. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
hubris
hairsplitting
categorical imperative
liberal learning
4. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Strict neutrality
empiricism
Politics
subjective idealism
5. Categories of philosophy as an activity
ordinary language analysis
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
casuity
6. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
Laws
Thomistic realism
Jacques Derrida
7. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Nicocles
hallmark of liberal arts education
8. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Sophists
state
cognitive
Latin
9. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
empiricism
general education
Antidosis
atheistic wing of existentialism
10. Two categories of axiology
happiness
dialectic
ethics and aesthetics
Cosmic dualism
11. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Athens
complete moral education
Memorabilia
ideal language analysis
12. 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
matter
Trivium and Quadrivium
religious zealots
preciseness
13. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Republic
Plato
Memorabilia
idealist value theory
14. Capability to change in certain ways
Memorabilia
potentiality
Athens
tradition of liberal arts education
15. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
criticism of latin
hallmark of liberal arts education
16. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
cognitive
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Neil Postman
experimentalist aesthetic view
17. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
maturational theories
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
descriptive
Abraham Lincoln
18. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
conceptual mapping
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
existentialism
form
19. Portion of being
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
cultural literacy
innoculation method
actuality
20. World is an emanation of God's own being
Neo-Platonism
national government
critique of great texts of western world
Thracians
21. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
socialization theories
local government
experimentalist aesthetic view
modernity
22. Philosophy is both...?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
a subject matter and an activity
naturalism
Pluralism
23. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Golden Mean and habit
cognitive-stage theories
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Key elements of Greek education
24. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
philosophy of education
Dorian music
First Amendment activists
Zeno
25. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
analytic
hairsplitting
revelation
26. Aspect which makes something tangible
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
matter
mirror of society and critic of society
sole true end of education
27. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Liberally educated person
Canon
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
28. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Theology
ethics
Lyceum
Plato
29. Children born from 1981-1999
Dorian music
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
paideia
Stanford University Students
30. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
conceptual mapping
up
Platonic concept of education
31. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
state
ordinary language analysis
Theology
embrace them intellectually
32. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
empirical analytics
hallmark of liberal arts education
33. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
analytic philosophy
Materialism
Latin
Hellenica
34. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
normative philosophy of education
Lyceum
Jacques Derrida
Politics
35. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
X Generation
flute
California and Texas
36. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
existentialism
California and Texas
postmodernism
37. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
rhetoric
postmodernity
Allegory of the Cave
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
38. What medievals focused on
revelation
socialization theories
form
Plato and the arts
39. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Neil Postman
existentialism
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
responsibility theory
40. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
practical side (CDE pattern)
existentialism
experimentalist aesthetic view
leaner-centered approach
41. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
Middle Ages
liberal learning
postmodernist theory of education
Isocrates
42. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
theistic wing of existentialism
idealist metaphysics
philosophy
cognitive
43. Martin Luther; John Calvin
fundamental part of teaching
Plato
Protestant Reformation
Order of Trivium
44. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
liberal learning
postmodernity
Sparta
hallmark of liberal arts education
45. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Cosmic dualism
ethics
Liberally educated person
transcendential idealism
46. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
paideia
philosophical idealist
postermodernist literary ideas
47. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Sophists
revelation
philosophy as a subject matter
Naturalist aim of education
48. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
California and Texas
sauromatides
Protagoras
cultural literacy
49. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
pragmatism
Laws
noetic powers
50. Rational structure of Christian thought
Protagoras
Neil Postman
dogmatic theory
Blessing