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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Thracians
collective Christian mind
Kant and George Berkeley
theistic wing of existentialism
2. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
ordinary language analysis
division of controversial issues
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
pragmatism
3. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
in the home
cognitive
preciseness
subjective idealism
4. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
vocational training
controlled transaction
5. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
reader-response theory
ethics
liberal education and career training
6. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
multiculturalism
Liberally educated person
particularism
Athens
7. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
Isocrates
pragmatism
Against the Sophists
California and Texas
8. 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
reader-response theory
active
existentialism
value neutrality
9. Socrates' ultimate goal
Leisure
virtue
pragmatism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
10. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
reason
cognitive
Hellenica
confidence
11. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
Socrates
preciseness
Strict neutrality
philosophical idealist
12. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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13. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
logic
aesthetics
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Lyceum
14. Father of History
Aristotle
Herodotus
pragmatism
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
15. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
synthetic
Platonic concept of education
Lyceum
Materialism
16. 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)
Stanley Fish
postmodernist theory of education
dogmatic theory
existentialism
17. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
empirical analytics
Euthydemus
existentialism
Pluralism
18. Learning is...
flute
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
noetic powers
active
19. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
goal of empiricism
organized knowledge
philosophy of education
20. 'What is good?'
Isocrates
state
ethics
general education
21. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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22. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Monkey Trial
active
organized knowledge
scholastic
23. 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
actuality
Laws
liberal education and career training
Antidosis
24. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
John Dewey
Socrates
responsibility theory
embrace them intellectually
25. Use women more as slaves
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Thracians
philosophy of education
Dorian music
26. Theoretical issues and practical issues
Zeno
division of controversial issues
confidence
cultural literacy
27. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
virtue
rejected
maturational theories
28. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
general education
leaner-centered approach
Naturalist aim of education
quadrivium
29. Most famous multiculturalist project
critique of great texts of western world
Family
Naturalism vs. Christianity
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
30. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
reason for sending child to public school
normative
Materialism
organized knowledge
31. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
Criticism of existentialism
Isocrates
Golden Mean and habit
religious zealots
32. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Athens and Sparta
Family
California and Texas
philosophy as a subject matter
33. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Epistemology
general education
hairsplitting
Athens
34. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
Neo-Platonism
Epicurus
Sir Francis Bacon
35. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Jacques Derrida
consumerism
Amish
actuality
36. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Abraham Lincoln
Golden Mean and habit
Experimentalist aesthetics
37. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
John Dewey
reason for sending child to public school
reader-response theory
Canon
38. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
analysis
Lyceum
linguistic descriptions
Middle Ages
39. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true
Individual Christian mind
ethics and aesthetics
atheistic wing of existentialism
dialectic
40. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
existentialism
matter
Modernity
socialization theories
41. Nature of any given thing
Leisure
Essence
Key elements of Greek education
Kant and George Berkeley
42. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
liberal education and career training
Key elements of Greek education
Peterson
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
43. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
confidence
ages that Trivium should be used
goal of liberal education
flute
44. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
Tolkein approach
aesthetics
Plato and the arts
practical issues
45. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
normative
reason
Athens and Sparta
empirical analytics
46. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Dorian music
value neutrality
Latin
47. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
Integrated Education
Thomistic realism
Sophists
48. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Platonic concept of education
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
philosophical analysis
Athens
49. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
form
epitome of postmodern person
theoretical issues
ethics and aesthetics
50. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Laws
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Great defect in modern education
existentialist aesthetics