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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
general education
subjective idealism
value neutrality
2. What was created to protect academic freedom?
worldview
Tenure
Nicocles
mirror of society and critic of society
3. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Tenure
philosophical idealist
Outmoded
postmodernist theory of education
4. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Athens and Sparta
in the home
consumerism
Nicocles
5. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
synthetic
empiricism
Experimentalist values
hubris
6. Learning is...
subjective idealism
metaphysics
cognitive-stage theories
active
7. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
division of controversial issues
Zeno
existentialist aesthetics
up
8. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
undergraduate schools
a healthy Christian theism
linguistic descriptions
Naturalist aim of education
9. 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
Thracians
organized knowledge
naturalism
Golden Mean and habit
10. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Athens and Sparta
postmodernist theory of education
philosophical analysis
Pluralism
11. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Epistemology
liberal education and career training
Abraham Lincoln
Sigmund Freud
12. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
organized knowledge
form
Allegory of the Cave
existence precedes essence
13. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Naturalist aim of education
socratic method
critique of great texts of western world
Family
14. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
happiness
Socrates
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
15. Stress self-expression
innoculation method
happiness
maturational theories
liberal learning
16. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Stanford University Students
cognitive
postmodernist aesthetics
modernity
17. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
First Amendment activists
Leisure
naturalism
18. 'What is good?'
noetic powers
pragmatism
Epistemology
ethics
19. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
happiness
rhetoric
Athens
20. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
naturalistic cosmotogies
logic
Lyceum
liberal learning
21. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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22. 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
value neutrality
Experimentalist aesthetics
Criticism of existentialism
Antidosis
23. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
critique of great texts of western world
Sigmund Freud
criticism of latin
Order of Trivium
24. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
postmodernity
pure secularism
Golden Mean and habit
25. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Panathenaicus
First Amendment activists
Protagoras
empiricism
26. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
Laws
liberation to truth
difference between leisure and amusement
leaner-centered approach
27. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Protagoras
Antidosis
Postmodernity educational practice
Allegory of the Cave
28. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
idealist metaphysics
Dorian music
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
29. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
arete
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
general education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
30. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
philosophy as a subject matter
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
multiculturalism
Athens
31. Kant's general form of moral law
Sparta
Cosmic dualism
Justice and meritocracy
categorical imperative
32. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Order of Trivium
worldview
Amish
vocational training
33. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
experimentalist aesthetic view
Integrated Education
Order of Trivium
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
34. 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
fundamental part of teaching
Aristotle
theistic wing of existentialism
value neutrality
35. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
criticism of latin
theoretical issues
vocational training
Athens
36. 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
conceptual mapping
Plato
critique of great texts of western world
Protagoras
37. 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
philosophy
noetic powers
Pluralism
Euthydemus
38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
leaner-centered approach
self-knowledge
Republic
reason for sending child to public school
39. 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
goal of empiricism
analytic
Nicomachean Ethics
philosophical analysis
40. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
hallmark of liberal arts education
empirical analytics
41. 3 traditional philosophies of education
Memorabilia
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
tradition of liberal arts education
Middle Ages
42. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
cultural literacy
casuity
Herodotus
43. Philosophy is both...?
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
a subject matter and an activity
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Pluralism
44. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
fundamental part of teaching
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Against the Sophists
potentiality
45. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy
ethics
46. Experience is reality; activity-based
liberal learning
pragmatism
consumerism
existentialist view of education
47. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
analytic philosophy
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Allegory of the Cave
Monkey Trial
48. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
metaphysics
revelation
Protagoras
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
49. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
Theology
Integrated Education
truth from narratives and story-telling
analytic
50. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
postermodernist literary ideas
revelation
Stanley Fish
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
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