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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
Isocrates
existentialist aesthetics
liberal learning
Amish
2. 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
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
liberation to truth
Nicomachean Ethics
existentialist view of education
3. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
Isocrates
preciseness
modernity
Pluralism
4. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Republic
Memorabilia
ideal language analysis
xenophon
5. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Epicurus
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
fundamental part of teaching
Nicocles
6. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
idealist metaphysics
collective Christian mind
criticism of latin
embrace them intellectually
7. Father of History
Herodotus
Epistemology
Isocrates
Aristotle
8. Rational structure of Christian thought
Isocrates
dogmatic theory
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
controlled transaction
9. Two main philosophers of idealism
state
Kant and George Berkeley
transcendential idealism
X Generation
10. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Blessing
Platonic concept of education
Sophists
Athens
11. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Trivium and Quadrivium
empiricism
liberal learning
X Generation
12. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Aristotle
particularism
metaphysics
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
13. 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
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Modernity
pragmatism
theoretical issues
14. 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
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Antidosis
Naturalism vs. Christianity
ordinary language analysis
15. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
famous attack of medievals
Protagorean rationale for general education
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
confidence
16. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
dogmatic theory
famous attack of medievals
descriptive
Republic
17. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
philosophy of education
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Plato and the arts
Postmodernity educational practice
18. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Isocrates
Naturalism vs. Christianity
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Sparta
19. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Modernity
pragmatism
Order of Trivium
sauromatides
20. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
Protagorean rationale for general education
Key elements of Greek education
Naturalism vs. Christianity
21. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
Republic
noetic powers
practical side (CDE pattern)
naturalistic cosmotogies
22. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Abraham Lincoln
scholastic
sole true end of education
virtue
23. 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
Protagoras
Republic
liberation to truth
Neo-Platonism
24. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Sparta
subjective idealism
Plato and the arts
consumerism
25. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
only adequate education
Sir Francis Bacon
Against the Sophists
Latin
26. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
goal of empiricism
critique of great texts of western world
Sir Francis Bacon
27. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Blessing
Republic
Leisure
Abraham Lincoln
28. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
Criticism of existentialism
socialization theories
dialectic
29. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Euthydemus
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
leaner-centered approach
modernity
30. The 'love of wisdom'
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Plato and the arts
philosophy
Postmodernity educational practice
31. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
logic
postmodernity
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
32. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Great defect in modern education
particularism
analytic
idealist metaphysics
33. Two categories of axiology
up
ethics and aesthetics
atheistic wing of existentialism
worldview
34. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
transcendential idealism
Isocrates
postmodernist aesthetics
35. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Abraham Lincoln
philosophical idealist
hubris
Allegory of the Cave
36. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
confidence
Experimentalist values
synthetic
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
37. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
matter
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
national government
preciseness
38. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
categorical imperative
normative
theoretical issues
Criticism of existentialism
39. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
subjective idealism
normative
Experimentalist view of education
dialectic
40. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
complete moral education
active
existentialist aesthetics
hallmark of liberal arts education
41. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
worldview
Naturalism vs. Christianity
42. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Materialism
Jacques Derrida
Neil Postman
Monkey Trial
43. No God
ideal language analysis
Naturalism vs. Christianity
experimentalist aesthetic view
Athens
44. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
noetic powers
practical side (CDE pattern)
critique of great texts of western world
45. Categories of philosophy as an activity
trivium
empiricism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
46. Started naturalism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Sir Francis Bacon
Dead White European Male
Plato and the arts
47. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
reader-response theory
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
X Generation
48. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Dorian music
experiential
Thracians
49. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Sir Francis Bacon
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Athens and Sparta
X Generation
50. What the medievals are criticized for
logic
experiential
hairsplitting
innoculation method