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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
leaner-centered approach
dialectic
idealist theory of education
Essence
2. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
Dorian music
epitome of postmodern person
philosophical analysis
mirror of society and critic of society
3. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Protagoras
reader-response theory
Liberally educated person
collective Christian mind
4. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Platonic concept of education
confidence
liberation to truth
theistic wing of existentialism
5. World is permeated by divine essence
Hindu Patheism
postmodernist aesthetics
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
undergraduate schools
6. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
Leisure
Hellenica
linguistic descriptions
flute
7. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
sole true end of education
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Epistemology
Hellenica
8. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Socratic method
difference between leisure and amusement
state
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
9. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Memorabilia
Criticism of existentialism
liberal education and career training
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
10. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
Socratic method
Latin
dialectic
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
11. Portion of being
aesthetics
actuality
Strict neutrality
empirical analytics
12. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Kant and George Berkeley
Golden Mean and habit
Epicurus
philosophy of education
13. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
embrace them intellectually
Thoreau
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
14. Use women more as slaves
Thracians
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
idealist value theory
Theology
15. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
consumerism
Hindu Patheism
epitome of postmodern person
metaphysics
16. How was ancient Greece divided?
Trivium and Quadrivium
virtue
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
cognitive
17. 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
Golden Mean and habit
Thracians
dogmatic theory
18. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
empiricism
conceptual mapping
goal of empiricism
embrace them intellectually
19. What Greeks mostly focused on
ethics
self-knowledge
reason
Plato
20. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
maturational theories
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
naturalistic cosmotogies
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
21. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Individual Christian mind
division of controversial issues
Plato
Abraham Joshua Heschel
22. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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23. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
sole true end of education
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Socrates
particularism
24. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
Abraham Joshua Heschel
religious zealots
Trivium and Quadrivium
undergraduate schools
25. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
categorical imperative
embrace them intellectually
undergraduate schools
maturational theories
26. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
philosophy as a subject matter
Monkey Trial
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
27. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Memorabilia
form
Criticism of existentialism
trivium
28. 1600s; get to truth through science
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Nicocles
modernity
Panathenaicus
29. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
analytic
criticism of latin
Plato's division of human decisions
form
30. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
quadrivium
truth from narratives and story-telling
Tenure
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
31. Most famous multiculturalist project
Postmodernity educational practice
critique of great texts of western world
up
experimentalist aesthetic view
32. What do Americans have the most of in education?
dialectic
Golden Mean and habit
confidence
Athens
33. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment
Experimentalist view of education
analytic
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Naturalism vs. Christianity
34. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
Essence
goal of empiricism
Sigmund Freud
Quadrivium
35. 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
self-knowledge
Nicocles
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
X Generation
36. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Athens and Sparta
Isocrates
innoculation method
Laws
37. All knowledge is derived from the senses
revelation
responsibility theory
empiricism
maturational theories
38. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Laws
Aristotle
Republic
embrace them intellectually
39. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
ages that Trivium should be used
cognitive
maturational theories
epitome of postmodern person
40. It is a dead language
Peterson
idealist value theory
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
criticism of latin
41. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
existentialism
idealist metaphysics
Thoreau
42. What is a 'DWEM'?
philosophy
Dead White European Male
flute
Protagorean rationale for general education
43. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
confidence
ethics and aesthetics
experimentalist aesthetic view
44. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;
postmodernism
multiculturalism
form
paideia
45. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
Family
hallmark of liberal arts education
axiology
truth from narratives and story-telling
46. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
postermodernist literary ideas
reason for sending child to public school
revelation
analysis
47. Kant's general form of moral law
categorical imperative
vocational training
Sophists
Trivium and Quadrivium
48. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Leisure
general education
existentialism
existentialism
49. Stress self-expression
Platonic concept of education
maturational theories
First Amendment activists
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
50. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
First Amendment activists
existentialism
division of controversial issues
virtue