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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Middle Ages
Thracians
Integrated Education
Platonic concept of education
2. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
Isocrates
analytic philosophy
linguistic descriptions
Criticism of existentialism
3. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
actuality
mirror of society and critic of society
Protagoras
flute
4. Philosophy is both...?
a healthy Christian theism
Strict neutrality
a subject matter and an activity
particularism
5. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
postmodernity
liberation to truth
6. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
Postmodernity educational practice
reason for sending child to public school
local government
goal of empiricism
7. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
existentialist view of education
consumerism
Thoreau
Tolkein approach
8. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Naturalist aim of education
descriptive
Epistemology
ideal language analysis
9. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
matter
synthetic
philosophy of education
worldview
10. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
Protagorean rationale for general education
collective Christian mind
Amish
linguistic descriptions
11. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Hellenica
mirror of society and critic of society
liberal education and career training
metaphysics
12. Rational structure of Christian thought
goal of liberal education
Essence
X Generation
dogmatic theory
13. It is a dead language
a subject matter and an activity
Kant and George Berkeley
ideal language analysis
criticism of latin
14. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
national government
Epistemology
philosophical analysis
embrace them intellectually
15. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
pragmatism
hairsplitting
organized knowledge
Xenophon
16. 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
modernity
Abraham Joshua Heschel
existentialism
goal of empiricism
17. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
controlled transaction
synthetic
Blessing
John Dewey
18. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
collective Christian mind
philosophical idealist
analytic
Trivium and Quadrivium
19. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
undergraduate schools
Nicomachean Ethics
reader-response theory
20. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason
revelation
Plato
Tolkein approach
Criticism of existentialism
21. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
worldview
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
value neutrality
ideal language analysis
22. To teach men how to learn for themselves
mirror of society and critic of society
active
Trivium and Quadrivium
sole true end of education
23. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Sparta
Arabasis
Epistemology
Liberally educated person
24. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
transcendential idealism
Key elements of Greek education
local government
philosophy as a subject matter
25. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
First Amendment activists
analysis
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
26. World is permeated by divine essence
rejected
Hindu Patheism
Latin
empiricism
27. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Republic
ideal language analysis
Experimentalist values
general education
28. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
idealist value theory
philosophical analysis
practical issues
cognitive-stage theories
29. Socrates' ultimate goal
worldview
virtue
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Family
30. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
goal of empiricism
Trivium and Quadrivium
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Tolkein approach
31. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Peterson
Thoreau
Plato's division of human decisions
theoretical issues
32. Two categories of axiology
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
ethics and aesthetics
liberal education and career training
cultural literacy
33. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
linguistic descriptions
difference between leisure and amusement
Dorian music
Arabasis
34. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
form
philosophical idealist
Dead White European Male
empiricism
35. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
existence precedes essence
existentialism
X Generation
Golden Mean and habit
36. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
rejected
Cosmic dualism
hallmark of liberal arts education
paideia
37. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
descriptive
empirical analytics
tradition of liberal arts education
Order of Trivium
38. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
rhetoric
actuality
Integrated Education
Zeno
39. 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
postmodernist theory of education
Sophists
mirror of society and critic of society
local government
40. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
Key elements of Greek education
religious zealots
Athens
Experimentalist view of education
41. Aspect which makes something tangible
Abraham Joshua Heschel
matter
empiricism
existence precedes essence
42. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
Experimentalist view of education
Neil Postman
particularism
aesthetics
43. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
critique of great texts of western world
idealist metaphysics
paideia
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
44. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
California and Texas
preciseness
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Politics
45. 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
Order of Trivium
empiricism
idealist theory of education
Great defect in modern education
46. Nature of any given thing
Essence
Thomistic realism
goal of liberal education
criticism of latin
47. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Isocrates
Plato's division of human decisions
hallmark of liberal arts education
innoculation method
48. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music
quadrivium
Blessing
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
sauromatides
49. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Golden Mean and habit
Protagoras
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
50. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
multiculturalism
Experimentalist view of education
state
theoretical issues