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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
controlled transaction
experiential
Experimentalist values
Integrated Education
2. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
categorical imperative
Against the Sophists
reason for sending child to public school
3. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
famous attack of medievals
hairsplitting
Jacques Derrida
4. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Isocrates
rhetoric
liberal learning
5. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Neil Postman
naturalism
existence precedes essence
6. 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
analytic philosophy
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
ethics
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
7. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Protagoras
empirical analytics
particularism
undergraduate schools
8. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Tolkein approach
consumerism
theoretical issues
leaner-centered approach
9. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
rejected
virtue
ages that Trivium should be used
collective Christian mind
10. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
truth from narratives and story-telling
liberal learning
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Jacques Derrida
11. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
postmodernist aesthetics
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Platonic concept of education
Justice and meritocracy
12. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
particularism
happiness
naturalistic cosmotogies
Postmodernity educational practice
13. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Against the Sophists
practical side (CDE pattern)
hubris
noetic powers
14. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
consumerism
naturalistic cosmotogies
Protagorean rationale for general education
Quadrivium
15. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Justice and meritocracy
philosophical analysis
metaphysics
Experimentalist values
16. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
reason
Order of Trivium
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
form
17. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Canon
Plato's division of human decisions
Naturalist aim of education
postmodernist aesthetics
18. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
Dorian music
idealist metaphysics
cultural literacy
Aristotle
19. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
Criticism of existentialism
dialectic
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Thomistic realism
20. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
Aristotle
Protagoras
analytic
21. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Stanford University Students
potentiality
Family
idealist theory of education
22. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
form
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
postmodernist aesthetics
23. Use women more as slaves
actuality
Thracians
reader-response theory
Thomistic realism
24. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Protagoras
truth from narratives and story-telling
socialization theories
Socratic method
25. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Protestant Reformation
experiential
worldview
Laws
26. What Greeks mostly focused on
reason
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
ethics and aesthetics
scholastic
27. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
philosophy
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Plato and the arts
28. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Nicomachean Ethics
division of controversial issues
Protagoras
Against the Sophists
29. 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
Laws
axiology
transcendential idealism
Republic
30. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Postmodernity educational practice
subjective idealism
transcendential idealism
philosophy of education
31. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
naturalistic cosmotogies
local government
Criticism of existentialism
Protagorean rationale for general education
32. World is permeated by divine essence
Republic
Hindu Patheism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
33. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
analytic philosophy
Sparta
Stanley Fish
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
34. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
pragmatism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Epicurus
analysis
35. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Epicurus
pure secularism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Hindu Patheism
36. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
existentialism
scholastic
Isocrates
37. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
flute
postmodernity
Strict neutrality
national government
38. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
empiricism
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
value neutrality
Dead White European Male
39. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
division of controversial issues
critique of great texts of western world
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Plato
40. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
California and Texas
xenophon
philosophy of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
41. Learning is...
John Dewey
Neo-Platonism
active
Family
42. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Zeno
Outmoded
Xenophon
hubris
43. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as
Key elements of Greek education
a subject matter and an activity
Plato
empiricism
44. Capability to change in certain ways
Outmoded
Peterson
in the home
potentiality
45. World is an emanation of God's own being
existentialist view of education
Neo-Platonism
theoretical issues
reader-response theory
46. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
Materialism
theistic wing of existentialism
experimentalist aesthetic view
47. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
categorical imperative
John Dewey
hallmark of liberal arts education
logic
48. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
cultural literacy
in the home
Antidosis
Republic
49. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
maturational theories
trivium
Republic
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
50. Rational structure of Christian thought
Allegory of the Cave
Modernity
dogmatic theory
Dorian music
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