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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Concept of the beautiful
Athens
John Dewey
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
aesthetics
2. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
practical side (CDE pattern)
confidence
axiology
collective Christian mind
3. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
normative
idealist theory of education
Essence
Politics
4. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
conceptual mapping
John Dewey
logic
liberal learning
5. Good and evil in constant battle
postermodernist literary ideas
rejected
Cosmic dualism
Laws
6. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
transcendential idealism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Protagoras
7. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
existentialist aesthetics
pragmatism
experimentalist aesthetic view
Aristotle
8. To teach men how to learn for themselves
Arabasis
Jacques Derrida
sole true end of education
postmodernist aesthetics
9. Consisted of subjects
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Quadrivium
axiology
10. 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;
sole true end of education
Naturalism
postmodernism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
11. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
hairsplitting
analysis
Euthydemus
12. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
philosophy as a subject matter
Materialism
13. Not just liberation from falsehood but...
Plato and the arts
liberation to truth
categorical imperative
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
14. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Against the Sophists
postmodernist aesthetics
tradition of liberal arts education
quadrivium
15. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
metaphysics
Tenure
Arabasis
liberal education and career training
16. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
Nicocles
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Stanley Fish
17. The 'love of wisdom'
ordinary language analysis
philosophy
logic
Laws
18. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
xenophon
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
controlled transaction
national government
19. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
embrace them intellectually
Essence
philosophy as a subject matter
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
20. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Socratic method
noetic powers
Experimentalist view of education
Platonic concept of education
21. Nature of any given thing
experiential
First Amendment activists
Essence
Plato and the arts
22. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Dorian music
national government
Lyceum
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
23. Learning is...
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
famous attack of medievals
active
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
24. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
pure secularism
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
reason
25. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
general education
Jacques Derrida
Allegory of the Cave
embrace them intellectually
26. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc
Plato and the arts
cognitive-stage theories
Republic
a subject matter and an activity
27. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Materialism
ethics
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
28. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Liberally educated person
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
normative
Materialism
29. 'What is good?'
Sophists
ethics
philosophy
normative
30. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
metaphysics
casuity
transcendential idealism
Tenure
31. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
aesthetics
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Memorabilia
32. 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
worldview
Tenure
ordinary language analysis
Zeno
33. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
hubris
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
philosophy of education
34. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
conceptual mapping
empiricism
pure secularism
sauromatides
35. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
Jacques Derrida
Athens and Sparta
Thoreau
matter
36. What was created to protect academic freedom?
linguistic descriptions
sole true end of education
Tenure
quadrivium
37. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind
Aristotle
postmodernist theory of education
existentialist view of education
flute
38. What the medievals are criticized for
Key elements of Greek education
hairsplitting
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
postmodernity
39. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
metaphysics
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
dogmatic theory
Neil Postman
40. 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
trivium
Isocrates
logic
difference between leisure and amusement
41. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
practical side (CDE pattern)
existentialism
value neutrality
42. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
dogmatic theory
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Key elements of Greek education
43. 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
confidence
vocational training
dialectic
44. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
analytic philosophy
Arabasis
up
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
45. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Thoreau
Hellenica
Antidosis
Republic
46. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
sauromatides
a subject matter and an activity
idealist metaphysics
rhetoric
47. It is a dead language
Athens
criticism of latin
Neil Postman
Laws
48. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
local government
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
existentialism
Plato
49. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
a healthy Christian theism
Nicomachean Ethics
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
50. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
idealist value theory
leaner-centered approach
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Monkey Trial