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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being
postmodernity
collective Christian mind
ethics
theistic wing of existentialism
2. Most famous multiculturalist project
experiential
Herodotus
critique of great texts of western world
hubris
3. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
Epicurus
naturalism
general education
existence precedes essence
4. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
theistic wing of existentialism
subjective idealism
experiential
5. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
empiricism
potentiality
rejected
existence precedes essence
6. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Stanley Fish
pragmatism
Sir Francis Bacon
rhetoric
7. 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
existentialism
metaphysics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Neil Postman
8. What is the building block of civilization?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
particularism
philosophy
Family
9. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Abraham Lincoln
liberal education and career training
Allegory of the Cave
descriptive
10. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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11. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
truth from narratives and story-telling
postmodernist aesthetics
innoculation method
pragmatism
12. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
only adequate education
normative philosophy of education
organized knowledge
13. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
Dorian music
state
Thracians
14. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Postmodernity educational practice
revelation
Lyceum
active
15. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Great defect in modern education
a subject matter and an activity
state
synthetic
16. World is permeated by divine essence
revelation
general education
Protestant Reformation
Hindu Patheism
17. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
Neil Postman
Thoreau
a subject matter and an activity
Plato
18. It is a dead language
Socrates
criticism of latin
Plato's division of human decisions
Nicocles
19. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
existentialist aesthetics
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Aristotle
20. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
complete moral education
hubris
rhetoric
general education
21. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
sauromatides
idealist value theory
analysis
22. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
quadrivium
Dorian music
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sir Francis Bacon
23. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
pragmatism
conceptual mapping
Pluralism
Amish
24. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Thomistic realism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Peterson
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
25. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
synthetic
Politics
Aristotle
Experimentalist view of education
26. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Experimentalist values
undergraduate schools
cognitive
xenophon
27. Categories of philosophy as an activity
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
hairsplitting
paideia
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
28. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
pragmatism
goal of empiricism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
transcendential idealism
29. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
Experimentalist view of education
naturalism
axiology
30. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty
Dead White European Male
Order of Trivium
metaphysics
Plato and the arts
31. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
reader-response theory
Tolkein approach
Key elements of Greek education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
32. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
Criticism of existentialism
in the home
hubris
Naturalism
33. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
cultural literacy
Stanford University Students
Arabasis
normative
34. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
experiential
Latin
Experimentalist values
ethics
35. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
leaner-centered approach
liberation to truth
Golden Mean and habit
socratic method
36. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Justice and meritocracy
actuality
Protestant Reformation
embrace them intellectually
37. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
casuity
descriptive
modernity
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
38. Two main philosophers of idealism
Materialism
hubris
Kant and George Berkeley
a healthy Christian theism
39. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
Postmodernity educational practice
Isocrates
Plato's division of human decisions
Socrates
40. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Thracians
Tenure
idealist theory of education
idealist value theory
41. Experience is reality; activity-based
Abraham Lincoln
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Platonic concept of education
pragmatism
42. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
transcendential idealism
Dorian music
Theology
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
43. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
atheistic wing of existentialism
critique of great texts of western world
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Hindu Patheism
44. Quintessential educated medieval person
dialectic
scholastic
Republic
Socratic method
45. Capability to change in certain ways
leaner-centered approach
sole true end of education
potentiality
postmodernist theory of education
46. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
self-knowledge
Naturalist aim of education
pragmatism
Euthydemus
47. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Memorabilia
idealist metaphysics
pragmatism
vocational training
48. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
multiculturalism
analytic philosophy
Middle Ages
Latin
49. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'
form
Key elements of Greek education
Sophists
Athens
50. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30
ordinary language analysis
subjective idealism
naturalism
analytic philosophy
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