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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Allegory of the Cave
pure secularism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Great defect in modern education
2. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
local government
a healthy Christian theism
matter
cognitive
3. Good and evil in constant battle
cognitive-stage theories
Politics
Cosmic dualism
Latin
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
Politics
matter
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Panathenaicus
5. To teach men how to learn for themselves
only adequate education
sole true end of education
existentialism
Isocrates
6. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
pragmatism
Aristotle
normative
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
7. 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;
quadrivium
Experimentalist values
form
postmodernism
8. 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
socialization theories
Antidosis
Naturalist aim of education
Socratic method
9. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
dialectic
a healthy Christian theism
Athens and Sparta
Naturalism
10. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Epistemology
Athens
John Dewey
Republic
11. World is an emanation of God's own being
goal of liberal education
consumerism
postmodernity
Neo-Platonism
12. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
Aristotle
Tolkein approach
Panathenaicus
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
13. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
casuity
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Laws
rejected
14. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
Socratic method
transcendential idealism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
15. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
descriptive
happiness
Experimentalist aesthetics
16. Most famous multiculturalist project
quadrivium
critique of great texts of western world
arete
normative philosophy of education
17. Technology is not always a __________.
Blessing
philosophy as a subject matter
tradition of liberal arts education
Sigmund Freud
18. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
liberal learning
a subject matter and an activity
Experimentalist aesthetics
Naturalist aim of education
19. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Athens and Sparta
responsibility theory
idealist metaphysics
Cosmic dualism
20. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
Athens and Sparta
existentialist aesthetics
worldview
Canon
21. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Tenure
Essence
Zeno
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
22. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
worldview
Canon
division of controversial issues
atheistic wing of existentialism
23. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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24. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Peterson
active
Family
rhetoric
25. 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
theoretical issues
controlled transaction
Euthydemus
Plato's division of human decisions
26. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Tolkein approach
Plato
preciseness
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
27. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
naturalism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Protagoras
leaner-centered approach
28. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Athens and Sparta
particularism
only adequate education
liberal education and career training
29. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
hallmark of liberal arts education
Platonic concept of education
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
experimentalist aesthetic view
30. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
difference between leisure and amusement
theistic wing of existentialism
postmodernism
31. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
leaner-centered approach
consumerism
Great defect in modern education
32. Capability to change in certain ways
Euthydemus
epitome of postmodern person
potentiality
Justice and meritocracy
33. Rational structure of Christian thought
dogmatic theory
value neutrality
preciseness
general education
34. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
state
practical issues
casuity
Athens
35. The 'love of wisdom'
Peterson
logic
empiricism
philosophy
36. Experience is reality; activity-based
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Xenophon
pragmatism
37. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Naturalist aim of education
naturalistic cosmotogies
Individual Christian mind
responsibility theory
38. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
Thracians
existentialist view of education
pragmatism
Sir Francis Bacon
39. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Protagorean rationale for general education
Leisure
empirical analytics
Zeno
40. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Isocrates
Nicomachean Ethics
Laws
41. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
Athens
complete moral education
dialectic
42. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
cognitive-stage theories
Kant and George Berkeley
embrace them intellectually
Monkey Trial
43. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
analytic philosophy
active
existentialism
44. Encourages individual choice
maturational theories
existentialism
modernity
Dorian music
45. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
Herodotus
pragmatism
complete moral education
Theology
46. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
complete moral education
Experimentalist aesthetics
Aristotle
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
47. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
existence precedes essence
Xenophon
aesthetics
Middle Ages
48. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
Sigmund Freud
value neutrality
ages that Trivium should be used
vocational training
49. What Greeks mostly focused on
existentialism
reason
Hellenica
naturalism
50. It is a dead language
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
criticism of latin
Athens and Sparta
famous attack of medievals