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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
logic
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Epicurus
2. Kant's general form of moral law
existentialism
Aristotle
categorical imperative
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
3. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
philosophy of education
casuity
rejected
Athens
4. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
descriptive
Lyceum
xenophon
existentialism
5. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
California and Texas
Isocrates
Dead White European Male
Epistemology
6. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Socrates
Sparta
quadrivium
tradition of liberal arts education
7. How was ancient Greece divided?
complete moral education
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
liberal learning
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
8. 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
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophical analysis
Isocrates
difference between leisure and amusement
9. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
socratic method
Leisure
philosophy
10. World is an emanation of God's own being
Naturalism vs. Christianity
existentialism
ordinary language analysis
Neo-Platonism
11. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
matter
Postmodernity educational practice
Tolkein approach
organized knowledge
12. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
Liberally educated person
reader-response theory
Dead White European Male
complete moral education
13. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Quadrivium
theistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
14. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
controlled transaction
Leisure
Great defect in modern education
trivium
15. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
actuality
Jacques Derrida
Middle Ages
existence precedes essence
16. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Plato
conceptual mapping
sole true end of education
leaner-centered approach
17. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Protagorean rationale for general education
Nicomachean Ethics
truth from narratives and story-telling
Arabasis
18. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
ordinary language analysis
pragmatism
arete
Neo-Platonism
19. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
up
Aristotle
complete moral education
Republic
20. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
leaner-centered approach
Experimentalist values
noetic powers
Allegory of the Cave
21. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Panathenaicus
state
happiness
Sigmund Freud
22. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
collective Christian mind
Athens
Protestant Reformation
23. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
sauromatides
analysis
idealist metaphysics
24. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
existence precedes essence
Monkey Trial
undergraduate schools
25. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Sigmund Freud
Key elements of Greek education
multiculturalism
general education
26. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
truth from narratives and story-telling
Lyceum
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
27. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
state
descriptive
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
naturalism
28. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
Sir Francis Bacon
existentialism
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
29. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
existence precedes essence
xenophon
normative
socialization theories
30. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
Criticism of existentialism
scholastic
Aristotle
31. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
Nicocles
form
reader-response theory
paideia
32. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
Aristotle
Middle Ages
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
scholastic
33. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Lyceum
mirror of society and critic of society
dialectic
Abraham Lincoln
34. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
rhetoric
Great defect in modern education
transcendential idealism
controlled transaction
35. 1600s; get to truth through science
subjective idealism
modernity
Against the Sophists
complete moral education
36. Technology is not always a __________.
happiness
famous attack of medievals
a subject matter and an activity
Blessing
37. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Republic
hallmark of liberal arts education
empirical analytics
38. 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
postermodernist literary ideas
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
xenophon
Kant and George Berkeley
39. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
Sigmund Freud
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Middle Ages
a healthy Christian theism
40. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
flute
division of controversial issues
undergraduate schools
Laws
41. Good and evil in constant battle
criticism of latin
Cosmic dualism
Zeno
epitome of postmodern person
42. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
epitome of postmodern person
Quadrivium
Cosmic dualism
cognitive
43. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
X Generation
Protagorean rationale for general education
Arabasis
philosophical idealist
44. The 'love of wisdom'
idealist metaphysics
a subject matter and an activity
philosophy
pragmatism
45. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Memorabilia
active
ethics and aesthetics
46. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
mirror of society and critic of society
reason for sending child to public school
Stanford University Students
difference between leisure and amusement
47. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
xenophon
scholastic
Naturalism
48. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Isocrates
Thomistic realism
empiricism
49. Portion of being
existentialist view of education
local government
form
actuality
50. 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
Strict neutrality
vocational training
flute
Nicomachean Ethics