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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
dogmatic theory
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Aristotle
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
2. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
undergraduate schools
national government
preciseness
3. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
difference between leisure and amusement
flute
metaphysics
4. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
a subject matter and an activity
existentialist aesthetics
Allegory of the Cave
goal of liberal education
5. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
national government
Xenophon
quadrivium
naturalism
6. It is a dead language
philosophy
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
criticism of latin
Athens
7. Academic freedom does not mean _______
existentialism
existentialist view of education
Strict neutrality
Modernity
8. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Protagoras
Sparta
worldview
9. What medievals focused on
Family
cognitive
Plato and the arts
revelation
10. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Athens and Sparta
modernity
Experimentalist aesthetics
Jacques Derrida
11. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Laws
Tenure
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
worldview
12. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
Key elements of Greek education
Pluralism
goal of empiricism
13. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
famous attack of medievals
practical issues
Hellenica
existentialist aesthetics
14. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
Republic
Sir Francis Bacon
famous attack of medievals
15. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
revelation
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
16. 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
Isocrates
leaner-centered approach
Athens and Sparta
postmodernist theory of education
17. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
self-knowledge
Liberally educated person
aesthetics
metaphysics
18. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Monkey Trial
quadrivium
paideia
Aristotle
19. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
philosophical analysis
actuality
sole true end of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
20. Aspect which makes something tangible
Trivium and Quadrivium
matter
synthetic
existentialism
21. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Golden Mean and habit
Criticism of existentialism
consumerism
particularism
22. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Zeno
Nicocles
analysis
philosophy of education
23. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
normative
leaner-centered approach
socialization theories
Experimentalist aesthetics
24. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
preciseness
philosophical analysis
practical side (CDE pattern)
Materialism
25. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
epitome of postmodern person
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
a healthy Christian theism
Abraham Lincoln
26. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
empirical analytics
responsibility theory
practical issues
Republic
27. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
Plato and the arts
matter
famous attack of medievals
normative
28. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
ages that Trivium should be used
philosophy
paideia
Platonic concept of education
29. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
aesthetics
arete
Great defect in modern education
Aristotle
30. 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
scholastic
Blessing
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
31. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Sigmund Freud
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
state
Xenophon
32. A specific body of info every American should know
maturational theories
cultural literacy
goal of empiricism
Experimentalist aesthetics
33. The 'love of wisdom'
naturalism
philosophy
pragmatism
experimentalist aesthetic view
34. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
revelation
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
X Generation
flute
35. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
fundamental part of teaching
Isocrates
form
Pluralism
36. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
epitome of postmodern person
Lyceum
particularism
Allegory of the Cave
37. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
vocational training
descriptive
Politics
only adequate education
38. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Thoreau
dialectic
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
empirical analytics
39. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
vocational training
in the home
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
40. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
ideal language analysis
analytic
critique of great texts of western world
Aristotle
41. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
scholastic
tradition of liberal arts education
vocational training
noetic powers
42. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Sigmund Freud
Naturalism
Essence
Experimentalist values
43. 'What is good?'
ethics
Experimentalist view of education
goal of liberal education
embrace them intellectually
44. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Isocrates
45. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
Herodotus
Thoreau
cognitive-stage theories
flute
46. Rational structure of Christian thought
noetic powers
liberal learning
dogmatic theory
Plato
47. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
Modernity
Socrates
consumerism
naturalism
48. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
analysis
metaphysics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
49. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
Sir Francis Bacon
Strict neutrality
conceptual mapping
50. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Middle Ages
Stanford University Students
ordinary language analysis
organized knowledge