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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
modernity
idealist theory of education
theistic wing of existentialism
Golden Mean and habit
2. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Socrates
Justice and meritocracy
postmodernist aesthetics
dogmatic theory
3. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Epicurus
cultural literacy
difference between leisure and amusement
4. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
Pluralism
rhetoric
dialectic
Tolkein approach
5. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth
Lyceum
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Nicocles
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
6. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
Epistemology
ethics
Dorian music
ordinary language analysis
7. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Middle Ages
philosophical idealist
criticism of latin
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
8. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
value neutrality
scholastic
revelation
Abraham Joshua Heschel
9. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
naturalism
Great defect in modern education
Thoreau
Euthydemus
10. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
existentialist view of education
undergraduate schools
Experimentalist values
experiential
11. Two main philosophers of idealism
Socrates
Kant and George Berkeley
rhetoric
Hellenica
12. 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
categorical imperative
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
theistic wing of existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
13. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
experimentalist aesthetic view
general education
Socratic method
modernity
14. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Jacques Derrida
sauromatides
socialization theories
Experimentalist aesthetics
15. 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
local government
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
revelation
Laws
16. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Protagoras
Amish
philosophical analysis
17. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Neil Postman
empiricism
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
18. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Nicocles
Theology
Aristotle
goal of empiricism
19. No God
Tenure
Aristotle
Peterson
Naturalism vs. Christianity
20. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation
in the home
goal of liberal education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Experimentalist aesthetics
21. Academic freedom does not mean _______
reader-response theory
Strict neutrality
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Republic
22. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Jacques Derrida
active
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
analytic
23. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Tolkein approach
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
worldview
self-knowledge
24. Started naturalism
religious zealots
idealist metaphysics
Sir Francis Bacon
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
25. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
naturalistic cosmotogies
Nicocles
Integrated Education
subjective idealism
26. Music should be studied with a view to what?
Naturalism
preciseness
postermodernist literary ideas
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
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
Republic
postermodernist literary ideas
Neil Postman
Key elements of Greek education
28. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
up
rejected
national government
Plato and the arts
29. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
flute
existentialism
Lyceum
Socratic method
30. 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
cognitive-stage theories
Lyceum
ages that Trivium should be used
Socratic method
31. 3 traditional philosophies of education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
John Dewey
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Against the Sophists
32. 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
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
potentiality
Euthydemus
philosophy
33. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
Individual Christian mind
Golden Mean and habit
philosophy
34. Concept of the beautiful
analysis
aesthetics
reason for sending child to public school
embrace them intellectually
35. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Aristotle
Key elements of Greek education
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
36. 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
Stanford University Students
analytic philosophy
practical issues
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
37. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
dialectic
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
empiricism
logic
38. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
dogmatic theory
consumerism
Modernity
particularism
39. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
confidence
existentialism
Order of Trivium
Arabasis
40. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
conceptual mapping
goal of empiricism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Protagoras
41. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
Nicomachean Ethics
Sparta
multiculturalism
noetic powers
42. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
state
Plato
Xenophon
worldview
43. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
analysis
descriptive
Politics
philosophy as a subject matter
44. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Integrated Education
45. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Tenure
happiness
Experimentalist values
Experimentalist aesthetics
46. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
existentialism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
categorical imperative
reason for sending child to public school
47. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Plato and the arts
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Jacques Derrida
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
48. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
Naturalist aim of education
casuity
Naturalism
49. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
normative
Memorabilia
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
50. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
embrace them intellectually
Materialism
Sigmund Freud
virtue