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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What Greeks mostly focused on
socratic method
reason
Thracians
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
2. 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
hallmark of liberal arts education
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
existence precedes essence
3. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
happiness
only adequate education
leaner-centered approach
Laws
4. Knowledge most worth having
Abraham Lincoln
pragmatism
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
self-knowledge
5. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
Plato and the arts
Athens
division of controversial issues
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
6. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
Aristotle
Order of Trivium
normative
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
7. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Liberally educated person
subjective idealism
confidence
8. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
naturalistic cosmotogies
liberal education and career training
Sophists
Socrates
9. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Zeno
truth from narratives and story-telling
multiculturalism
idealist theory of education
10. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Essence
empirical analytics
normative
liberation to truth
11. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
Experimentalist aesthetics
normative philosophy of education
Republic
Cosmic dualism
12. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Against the Sophists
responsibility theory
Sir Francis Bacon
postmodernist aesthetics
13. 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?'
Key elements of Greek education
trivium
Great defect in modern education
atheistic wing of existentialism
14. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
noetic powers
Dead White European Male
Protagorean rationale for general education
philosophy as a subject matter
15. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
Athens and Sparta
First Amendment activists
Leisure
16. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Neo-Platonism
maturational theories
value neutrality
Epicurus
17. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Protagoras
Lyceum
Plato's division of human decisions
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
18. Kant's general form of moral law
state
hairsplitting
ethics and aesthetics
categorical imperative
19. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Hellenica
empiricism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Lyceum
20. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
normative
national government
Aristotle
21. Technology is not always a __________.
Blessing
John Dewey
Experimentalist values
up
22. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Naturalism
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Blessing
Experimentalist view of education
23. 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
Protagorean rationale for general education
difference between leisure and amusement
Plato's division of human decisions
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
24. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Isocrates
general education
Athens
Epicurus
25. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Memorabilia
Athens
Protagorean rationale for general education
26. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Thomistic realism
aesthetics
epitome of postmodern person
goal of empiricism
27. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
fundamental part of teaching
axiology
paideia
national government
28. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Abraham Lincoln
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Naturalist aim of education
29. 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
existentialism
Memorabilia
analytic philosophy
reader-response theory
30. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
Protagorean rationale for general education
reason for sending child to public school
worldview
pragmatism
31. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
casuity
Postmodernity educational practice
postmodernist theory of education
active
32. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
controlled transaction
Criticism of existentialism
Zeno
Plato
33. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Sigmund Freud
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Xenophon
cognitive
34. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
John Dewey
Latin
Republic
Liberally educated person
35. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
existentialism
a subject matter and an activity
modernity
Kant and George Berkeley
36. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
metaphysics
analytic philosophy
California and Texas
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
37. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
local government
philosophical analysis
responsibility theory
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
38. Aspect which makes something tangible
virtue
rhetoric
matter
idealist metaphysics
39. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
ordinary language analysis
cognitive-stage theories
Socrates
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
40. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
revelation
vocational training
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
practical side (CDE pattern)
41. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
ethics
Socrates
dialectic
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
42. Capability to change in certain ways
potentiality
Platonic concept of education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Panathenaicus
43. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
Plato
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
experiential
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
44. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Dead White European Male
Plato and the arts
transcendential idealism
Platonic concept of education
45. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Herodotus
Hellenica
maturational theories
46. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
Essence
First Amendment activists
existentialist aesthetics
quadrivium
47. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Memorabilia
First Amendment activists
postermodernist literary ideas
Amish
48. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Outmoded
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Nicocles
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
49. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
Cosmic dualism
Naturalism vs. Christianity
Aristotle
50. 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
Euthydemus
Order of Trivium
Abraham Lincoln
general education