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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
philosophical analysis
Antidosis
tradition of liberal arts education
Platonic concept of education
2. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
theistic wing of existentialism
Sir Francis Bacon
John Dewey
3. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Politics
cognitive
4. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Family
conceptual mapping
scholastic
Abraham Joshua Heschel
5. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
Protestant Reformation
Monkey Trial
Abraham Lincoln
paideia
6. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
Hellenica
Sophists
scholastic
7. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
state
criticism of latin
descriptive
up
8. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
Outmoded
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
potentiality
9. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
existentialist view of education
hubris
sole true end of education
10. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Naturalism vs. Christianity
xenophon
Abraham Joshua Heschel
collective Christian mind
11. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Amish
Liberally educated person
Antidosis
Epicurus
12. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
dialectic
reason
worldview
Athens and Sparta
13. Rational structure of Christian thought
experimentalist aesthetic view
division of controversial issues
Cosmic dualism
dogmatic theory
14. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Outmoded
complete moral education
idealist metaphysics
Postmodernity educational practice
15. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
First Amendment activists
categorical imperative
undergraduate schools
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
16. All knowledge is derived from the senses
empiricism
Trivium and Quadrivium
Epistemology
ethics
17. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
a subject matter and an activity
Politics
religious zealots
axiology
18. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
liberation to truth
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Naturalist aim of education
19. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
Aristotle
state
ordinary language analysis
hallmark of liberal arts education
20. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
famous attack of medievals
Dead White European Male
Cosmic dualism
21. It is a dead language
First Amendment activists
form
criticism of latin
truth from narratives and story-telling
22. Learning is...
modernity
rhetoric
active
existentialist view of education
23. 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
preciseness
normative
subjective idealism
Nicocles
24. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
axiology
dialectic
tradition of liberal arts education
25. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
postmodernism
organized knowledge
Neil Postman
naturalism
26. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Experimentalist values
Plato and the arts
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
California and Texas
27. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Herodotus
Blessing
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
28. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
ideal language analysis
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
philosophical analysis
29. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
self-knowledge
philosophy of education
synthetic
quadrivium
30. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
ages that Trivium should be used
Stanford University Students
practical side (CDE pattern)
cultural literacy
31. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
Plato
cognitive
Euthydemus
socialization theories
32. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Hellenica
Naturalist aim of education
Amish
general education
33. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
postmodernity
rejected
Hindu Patheism
postmodernist aesthetics
34. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Leisure
categorical imperative
Plato
philosophical idealist
35. 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
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Strict neutrality
36. 1600s; get to truth through science
Republic
modernity
Leisure
Strict neutrality
37. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Experimentalist view of education
controlled transaction
epitome of postmodern person
Sophists
38. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
ordinary language analysis
local government
quadrivium
Experimentalist view of education
39. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
analysis
postmodernist aesthetics
John Dewey
liberation to truth
40. The 'love of wisdom'
Order of Trivium
philosophy
Postmodernity educational practice
embrace them intellectually
41. 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;
Naturalism vs. Christianity
atheistic wing of existentialism
postmodernism
Tenure
42. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
potentiality
Trivium and Quadrivium
Great defect in modern education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
43. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Theology
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Tenure
practical issues
44. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Dorian music
flute
existentialist view of education
45. 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
Protestant Reformation
cognitive-stage theories
naturalistic cosmotogies
46. 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
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
dialectic
philosophy of education
Nicomachean Ethics
47. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
Jacques Derrida
a healthy Christian theism
hairsplitting
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
48. 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)
confidence
existentialism
Modernity
cognitive-stage theories
49. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
normative
division of controversial issues
idealist value theory
Liberally educated person
50. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Kant and George Berkeley
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools