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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. One that shapes the whole person
metaphysics
revelation
only adequate education
complete moral education
2. Theoretical issues and practical issues
liberation to truth
local government
division of controversial issues
only adequate education
3. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Sir Francis Bacon
idealist value theory
Epicurus
4. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
Thoreau
metaphysics
controlled transaction
5. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Middle Ages
modernity
particularism
Aristotle
6. 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
Athens and Sparta
Nicocles
aesthetics
goal of empiricism
7. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
existentialism
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
ages that Trivium should be used
8. 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
Materialism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Hellenica
philosophical analysis
9. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
reason
philosophy of education
postermodernist literary ideas
pragmatism
10. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
Materialism
Great defect in modern education
Allegory of the Cave
11. 1600s; get to truth through science
liberation to truth
Golden Mean and habit
matter
modernity
12. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
metaphysics
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
categorical imperative
hubris
13. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
epitome of postmodern person
Nicomachean Ethics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
14. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Latin
Experimentalist values
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
division of controversial issues
15. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
innoculation method
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Platonic concept of education
leaner-centered approach
16. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
famous attack of medievals
Isocrates
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
value neutrality
17. 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;
categorical imperative
Plato
postmodernism
ideal language analysis
18. 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
theoretical issues
Plato
Socratic method
philosophy of education
19. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
postmodernism
linguistic descriptions
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
20. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
postmodernist aesthetics
Naturalist aim of education
postermodernist literary ideas
21. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
Golden Mean and habit
local government
organized knowledge
Nicomachean Ethics
22. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Stanley Fish
Tenure
tradition of liberal arts education
Socratic method
23. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
Golden Mean and habit
Sophists
ethics and aesthetics
conceptual mapping
24. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
naturalism
socialization theories
innoculation method
subjective idealism
25. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
Politics
Tolkein approach
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
26. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
worldview
Socratic method
descriptive
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
27. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
atheistic wing of existentialism
Aristotle
Key elements of Greek education
preciseness
28. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
noetic powers
Outmoded
Hindu Patheism
Amish
29. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being
cultural literacy
theoretical issues
paideia
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
30. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
Lyceum
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
arete
Jacques Derrida
31. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Aristotle
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
empirical analytics
32. Nature of any given thing
subjective idealism
Tenure
Essence
truth from narratives and story-telling
33. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
sauromatides
happiness
analytic
normative philosophy of education
34. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
synthetic
worldview
First Amendment activists
35. 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
synthetic
a subject matter and an activity
Athens and Sparta
36. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
reason
Thomistic realism
naturalistic cosmotogies
Sparta
37. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
fundamental part of teaching
organized knowledge
Isocrates
38. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
controlled transaction
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Individual Christian mind
existentialist view of education
39. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
tradition of liberal arts education
philosophical analysis
Protagoras
socialization theories
40. Most famous multiculturalist project
philosophy of education
critique of great texts of western world
Pluralism
particularism
41. Learning is...
Euthydemus
metaphysics
Plato and the arts
active
42. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
Jacques Derrida
postmodernity
philosophy of education
Kant and George Berkeley
43. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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44. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
experiential
Abraham Joshua Heschel
reader-response theory
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
45. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
existentialist view of education
idealist metaphysics
Tolkein approach
Arabasis
46. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
aesthetics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
cognitive-stage theories
47. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
First Amendment activists
controlled transaction
criticism of latin
naturalism
48. Children born from 1981-1999
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
existentialist view of education
dialectic
Amish
49. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
hairsplitting
goal of liberal education
worldview
cultural literacy
50. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
in the home
Politics
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
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