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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
Sir Francis Bacon
undergraduate schools
Socrates
local government
2. Categories of philosophy as an activity
liberation to truth
Kant and George Berkeley
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
goal of empiricism
3. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
value neutrality
Neil Postman
general education
actuality
4. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
critique of great texts of western world
California and Texas
form
postmodernity
5. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
descriptive
consumerism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Plato's division of human decisions
6. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Theology
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Naturalist aim of education
7. Children born from 1981-1999
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
practical issues
Plato's division of human decisions
8. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Experimentalist values
Nicocles
Laws
Essence
9. Father of History
goal of liberal education
Herodotus
embrace them intellectually
Middle Ages
10. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Lyceum
Amish
Jacques Derrida
Naturalism
11. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
xenophon
epitome of postmodern person
Plato
goal of liberal education
12. Use women more as slaves
reason for sending child to public school
Thracians
actuality
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
13. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
state
Platonic concept of education
Against the Sophists
14. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Experimentalist values
idealist theory of education
Athens and Sparta
subjective idealism
15. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Family
Tenure
Lyceum
experiential
16. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
active
Aristotle
collective Christian mind
cognitive-stage theories
17. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
mirror of society and critic of society
responsibility theory
Epistemology
postermodernist literary ideas
18. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
John Dewey
Protagorean rationale for general education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Strict neutrality
19. 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
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
analytic philosophy
liberal education and career training
Monkey Trial
20. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Plato
Amish
hairsplitting
trivium
21. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
cognitive-stage theories
state
Euthydemus
pure secularism
22. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
sauromatides
arete
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
empiricism
23. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Epistemology
religious zealots
Jacques Derrida
paideia
24. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
consumerism
Key elements of Greek education
reader-response theory
Sigmund Freud
25. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Canon
Abraham Lincoln
philosophy
transcendential idealism
26. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
undergraduate schools
active
Criticism of existentialism
local government
27. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
Strict neutrality
Criticism of existentialism
maturational theories
28. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
national government
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dorian music
29. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
descriptive
existentialist aesthetics
rejected
30. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Naturalist aim of education
rhetoric
postermodernist literary ideas
hallmark of liberal arts education
31. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Naturalism vs. Christianity
ethics and aesthetics
Experimentalist view of education
naturalism
32. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
goal of liberal education
existentialist aesthetics
fundamental part of teaching
paideia
33. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
form
quadrivium
Monkey Trial
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
34. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Athens
normative
ideal language analysis
Stanford University Students
35. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Latin
Protagoras
up
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
36. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Experimentalist aesthetics
existentialism
religious zealots
37. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
atheistic wing of existentialism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
existentialism
38. Quintessential educated medieval person
goal of empiricism
existentialism
scholastic
general education
39. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Thomistic realism
theistic wing of existentialism
criticism of latin
Epicurus
40. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
existentialist view of education
dogmatic theory
worldview
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
41. Knowledge most worth having
active
self-knowledge
Isocrates
existentialism
42. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Dead White European Male
postermodernist literary ideas
cultural literacy
organized knowledge
43. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
Liberally educated person
active
Kant and George Berkeley
44. 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
Peterson
Protagoras
Liberally educated person
Naturalism
45. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Tolkein approach
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
empiricism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
46. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
ordinary language analysis
difference between leisure and amusement
particularism
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
47. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
truth from narratives and story-telling
fundamental part of teaching
Politics
Criticism of existentialism
48. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Theology
Canon
only adequate education
dialectic
49. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Great defect in modern education
Abraham Lincoln
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
50. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Tolkein approach
synthetic
Essence