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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Children born from 1981-1999
scholastic
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Naturalism
Strict neutrality
2. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Jacques Derrida
leaner-centered approach
ideal language analysis
Outmoded
3. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
practical issues
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
hubris
Individual Christian mind
4. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
Politics
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Blessing
5. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
naturalistic cosmotogies
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Cosmic dualism
state
6. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Integrated Education
Trivium and Quadrivium
existentialist view of education
existentialist aesthetics
7. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
general education
socratic method
8. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
idealist theory of education
general education
arete
national government
9. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
aesthetics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
philosophy of education
sauromatides
10. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
transcendential idealism
casuity
Modernity
11. Consisted of subjects
liberal education and career training
fundamental part of teaching
Quadrivium
consumerism
12. Learning is...
postmodernity
Neo-Platonism
conceptual mapping
active
13. World is an emanation of God's own being
Kant and George Berkeley
Xenophon
Naturalist aim of education
Neo-Platonism
14. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Justice and meritocracy
Key elements of Greek education
15. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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16. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Protagoras
normative
Naturalist aim of education
Experimentalist view of education
17. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
local government
cultural literacy
X Generation
Socratic method
18. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Hindu Patheism
Order of Trivium
Plato
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
19. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Blessing
Integrated Education
consumerism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
20. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
Thomistic realism
liberal learning
Stanford University Students
Nicomachean Ethics
21. Encourages individual choice
Dead White European Male
existentialism
Integrated Education
John Dewey
22. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Protagorean rationale for general education
Modernity
Dead White European Male
23. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
Golden Mean and habit
socialization theories
experiential
24. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
Criticism of existentialism
fundamental part of teaching
Thoreau
Middle Ages
25. One that shapes the whole person
only adequate education
existentialism
Politics
Theology
26. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Tolkein approach
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Postmodernity educational practice
27. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
epitome of postmodern person
Sigmund Freud
Epistemology
criticism of latin
28. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Naturalism
Allegory of the Cave
hallmark of liberal arts education
Plato's division of human decisions
29. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
collective Christian mind
Amish
idealist theory of education
existentialist view of education
30. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Arabasis
mirror of society and critic of society
empiricism
dialectic
31. World is permeated by divine essence
value neutrality
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
subjective idealism
Hindu Patheism
32. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
postmodernist theory of education
Panathenaicus
casuity
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
33. 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
pragmatism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
First Amendment activists
Socrates
34. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Pluralism
Theology
empiricism
35. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
Modernity
innoculation method
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Allegory of the Cave
36. 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
collective Christian mind
experiential
Against the Sophists
practical side (CDE pattern)
37. 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;
rhetoric
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernism
38. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Protagoras
Family
quadrivium
Materialism
39. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
Athens and Sparta
Arabasis
Antidosis
40. Experience is reality; activity-based
categorical imperative
a healthy Christian theism
naturalistic cosmotogies
pragmatism
41. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
value neutrality
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
idealist theory of education
42. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
consumerism
philosophy
Naturalism
43. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
Panathenaicus
Euthydemus
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
44. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
ordinary language analysis
fundamental part of teaching
Jacques Derrida
Experimentalist values
45. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Naturalism vs. Christianity
arete
Dorian music
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
46. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Protagoras
pragmatism
vocational training
Leisure
47. Technology is not always a __________.
Socratic method
Blessing
cognitive
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
48. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
sole true end of education
empirical analytics
virtue
Plato
49. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Allegory of the Cave
Key elements of Greek education
state
preciseness
50. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
organized knowledge
Laws
paideia
First Amendment activists
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