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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
general education
analytic philosophy
organized knowledge
pragmatism
2. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
Protestant Reformation
hairsplitting
general education
liberal education and career training
3. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
practical side (CDE pattern)
Abraham Lincoln
Leisure
liberal education and career training
4. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
tradition of liberal arts education
hallmark of liberal arts education
Sigmund Freud
5. Father of History
Herodotus
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
a healthy Christian theism
reason for sending child to public school
6. 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
postmodernism
Liberally educated person
difference between leisure and amusement
Experimentalist aesthetics
7. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Arabasis
leaner-centered approach
Platonic concept of education
famous attack of medievals
8. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Naturalism
happiness
Protagorean rationale for general education
Abraham Lincoln
9. Academic freedom does not mean _______
happiness
Integrated Education
Strict neutrality
religious zealots
10. A specific body of info every American should know
cultural literacy
Jacques Derrida
Trivium and Quadrivium
Order of Trivium
11. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
empirical analytics
quadrivium
fundamental part of teaching
Sir Francis Bacon
12. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b
ordinary language analysis
normative
Panathenaicus
experiential
13. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Athens and Sparta
religious zealots
philosophical analysis
preciseness
14. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
descriptive
Naturalist aim of education
Outmoded
controlled transaction
15. One that shapes the whole person
Aristotle
Experimentalist aesthetics
only adequate education
reason for sending child to public school
16. 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
Experimentalist aesthetics
descriptive
Laws
Trivium and Quadrivium
17. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Plato
Arabasis
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
Protestant Reformation
18. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments
Integrated Education
truth from narratives and story-telling
Naturalist aim of education
Tolkein approach
19. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Neo-Platonism
Individual Christian mind
Laws
20. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
epitome of postmodern person
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
happiness
First Amendment activists
21. What Greeks mostly focused on
complete moral education
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
goal of empiricism
reason
22. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
idealist value theory
sauromatides
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
23. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
existentialism
Aristotle
undergraduate schools
Stanford University Students
24. 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
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Order of Trivium
25. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
California and Texas
division of controversial issues
Nicomachean Ethics
26. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
happiness
existentialist aesthetics
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
27. How was ancient Greece divided?
ages that Trivium should be used
Latin
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
28. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
Protestant Reformation
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
cognitive
Socratic method
29. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Integrated Education
Memorabilia
30. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
form
logic
Pluralism
John Dewey
31. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
Amish
Athens
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
synthetic
32. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
Politics
experiential
Canon
33. No God
Naturalism vs. Christianity
sole true end of education
Jacques Derrida
innoculation method
34. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
confidence
naturalism
Xenophon
35. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Strict neutrality
trivium
ideal language analysis
ages that Trivium should be used
36. The 'love of wisdom'
theistic wing of existentialism
particularism
philosophy
Isocrates
37. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
Protestant Reformation
goal of empiricism
division of controversial issues
casuity
38. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Criticism of existentialism
practical issues
quadrivium
liberal education and career training
39. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
empiricism
philosophical analysis
Arabasis
worldview
40. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?
undergraduate schools
truth from narratives and story-telling
responsibility theory
difference between leisure and amusement
41. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
Epistemology
Republic
Zeno
42. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
up
Integrated Education
self-knowledge
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
43. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Materialism
Outmoded
Tenure
Experimentalist view of education
44. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Sigmund Freud
Thomistic realism
Middle Ages
philosophy of education
45. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Abraham Lincoln
empiricism
Aristotle
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
46. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
casuity
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
47. Two categories of axiology
worldview
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
ethics and aesthetics
preciseness
48. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
Experimentalist view of education
analysis
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Memorabilia
49. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
Euthydemus
hubris
Sigmund Freud
subjective idealism
50. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Republic
existence precedes essence
Key elements of Greek education
Lyceum
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