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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Against the Sophists
analysis
idealist value theory
socratic method
2. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
division of controversial issues
Tolkein approach
Strict neutrality
existentialist aesthetics
3. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
only adequate education
Isocrates
pragmatism
Criticism of existentialism
4. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
ethics and aesthetics
Plato
idealist theory of education
Cosmic dualism
5. Children born from 1981-1999
Trivium and Quadrivium
Latin
experiential
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
6. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
revelation
epitome of postmodern person
value neutrality
categorical imperative
7. What medievals focused on
revelation
normative
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
socratic method
8. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Memorabilia
modernity
paideia
9. 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
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Family
analytic philosophy
10. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
theistic wing of existentialism
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
pure secularism
cognitive
11. Music should be studied with a view to what?
epitome of postmodern person
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
idealist metaphysics
Panathenaicus
12. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Plato
Hindu Patheism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Experimentalist view of education
13. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
descriptive
Stanford University Students
liberal learning
Plato and the arts
14. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
happiness
Individual Christian mind
tradition of liberal arts education
15. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
religious zealots
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Arabasis
16. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Dorian music
Stanford University Students
metaphysics
17. What the medievals are criticized for
hairsplitting
Sigmund Freud
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Euthydemus
18. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
normative
Postmodernity educational practice
ethics
practical issues
19. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
theoretical issues
flute
Middle Ages
20. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Integrated Education
controlled transaction
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
undergraduate schools
21. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Experimentalist view of education
Quadrivium
philosophy of education
critique of great texts of western world
22. Use women more as slaves
idealist theory of education
Thracians
rhetoric
Plato
23. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
a healthy Christian theism
controlled transaction
atheistic wing of existentialism
Lyceum
24. 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
Aristotle
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Experimentalist aesthetics
categorical imperative
25. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
Plato
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
postmodernist aesthetics
26. What is a 'DWEM'?
Neo-Platonism
postermodernist literary ideas
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
Dead White European Male
27. List of works that have always been studied
up
Athens
Canon
Protagoras
28. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
arete
form
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
socialization theories
29. Learning is...
active
postmodernity
modernity
postmodernist theory of education
30. Kant's general form of moral law
analytic philosophy
Lyceum
categorical imperative
existentialism
31. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Memorabilia
state
Monkey Trial
32. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
analysis
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
existentialism
Xenophon
33. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
existentialism
Isocrates
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Aristotle
34. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
worldview
consumerism
existentialist view of education
descriptive
35. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
tradition of liberal arts education
vocational training
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
36. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Socrates
Peterson
Abraham Joshua Heschel
postmodernist aesthetics
37. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
dialectic
idealist theory of education
epitome of postmodern person
38. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
existentialist view of education
Protagoras
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Amish
39. 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
cognitive-stage theories
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Aristotle
Peterson
40. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
experimentalist aesthetic view
experiential
Postmodernity educational practice
Pluralism
41. One that shapes the whole person
atheistic wing of existentialism
Cosmic dualism
only adequate education
pragmatism
42. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
fundamental part of teaching
Naturalism vs. Christianity
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
43. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
controlled transaction
pragmatism
multiculturalism
state
44. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
state
Socrates
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
normative
45. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
reason
First Amendment activists
criticism of latin
linguistic descriptions
46. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
Epistemology
particularism
Euthydemus
categorical imperative
47. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
ideal language analysis
cognitive
metaphysics
Latin
48. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
practical side (CDE pattern)
Tenure
metaphysics
tradition of liberal arts education
49. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Jacques Derrida
general education
Peterson
50. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Peterson
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Plato