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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
only adequate education
preciseness
Criticism of existentialism
revelation
2. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Pluralism
postmodernist theory of education
consumerism
epitome of postmodern person
3. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
California and Texas
criticism of latin
preciseness
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
4. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Postmodernity educational practice
active
collective Christian mind
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
5. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Laws
Abraham Joshua Heschel
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
embrace them intellectually
6. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
existentialism
idealist theory of education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
rejected
7. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
ideal language analysis
up
xenophon
8. Good and evil in constant battle
Protagoras
Family
goal of empiricism
Cosmic dualism
9. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Epistemology
experiential
10. World is an emanation of God's own being
liberal learning
ideal language analysis
liberal education and career training
Neo-Platonism
11. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Allegory of the Cave
naturalistic cosmotogies
Experimentalist values
Xenophon
12. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Athens and Sparta
Euthydemus
responsibility theory
13. 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
Individual Christian mind
idealist metaphysics
general education
Liberally educated person
14. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
idealist value theory
idealist metaphysics
Politics
complete moral education
15. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Strict neutrality
potentiality
state
postmodernity
16. World is permeated by divine essence
postmodernity
aesthetics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Hindu Patheism
17. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
Individual Christian mind
naturalistic cosmotogies
Stanley Fish
collective Christian mind
18. 3 traditional philosophies of education
a healthy Christian theism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
linguistic descriptions
Laws
19. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
confidence
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Stanford University Students
20. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
vocational training
metaphysics
Tolkein approach
Isocrates
21. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
ages that Trivium should be used
Protagoras
Xenophon
X Generation
22. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Socrates
arete
socratic method
famous attack of medievals
23. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
mirror of society and critic of society
Republic
Nicomachean Ethics
Golden Mean and habit
24. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Thracians
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
rhetoric
Memorabilia
25. 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
Experimentalist view of education
analysis
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
26. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Order of Trivium
actuality
Trivium and Quadrivium
Athens
27. Use women more as slaves
Socratic method
Zeno
Thracians
active
28. Consisted of subjects
paideia
empirical analytics
criticism of latin
Quadrivium
29. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Naturalism vs. Christianity
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Integrated Education
30. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
Sir Francis Bacon
naturalistic cosmotogies
in the home
31. 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;
active
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Tenure
postmodernism
32. 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
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Kant and George Berkeley
existentialist aesthetics
Nicomachean Ethics
33. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
Theology
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
flute
34. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
goal of liberal education
practical side (CDE pattern)
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
division of controversial issues
35. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
philosophical analysis
Individual Christian mind
X Generation
existentialism
36. Aspect which makes something tangible
Isocrates
paideia
leaner-centered approach
matter
37. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
analysis
tradition of liberal arts education
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
reason for sending child to public school
reason
philosophy as a subject matter
pragmatism
39. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Abraham Lincoln
famous attack of medievals
rhetoric
Naturalist aim of education
40. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
Individual Christian mind
Protagoras
happiness
Amish
41. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
active
Thoreau
Sophists
Justice and meritocracy
42. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
Protagoras
Memorabilia
epitome of postmodern person
43. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
existentialist view of education
Postmodernity educational practice
Arabasis
44. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Postmodernity educational practice
Quadrivium
naturalistic cosmotogies
worldview
45. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Jacques Derrida
critique of great texts of western world
postmodernist aesthetics
logic
46. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
modernity
Amish
noetic powers
Platonic concept of education
47. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
postmodernity
Aristotle
innoculation method
liberal learning
48. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
Athens
vocational training
pure secularism
49. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
sauromatides
ethics
arete
postmodernity
50. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Dorian music
reader-response theory