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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Aristotle
casuity
Experimentalist aesthetics
Stanley Fish
2. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
local government
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
a healthy Christian theism
existentialism
3. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
noetic powers
theoretical issues
Great defect in modern education
4. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
idealist metaphysics
Arabasis
a subject matter and an activity
linguistic descriptions
5. What Greeks mostly focused on
Laws
reason
existence precedes essence
goal of liberal education
6. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Republic
Herodotus
Individual Christian mind
7. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society
normative
Postmodernity educational practice
Experimentalist view of education
actuality
8. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Cosmic dualism
Kant and George Berkeley
goal of liberal education
9. 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
Cosmic dualism
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Plato
10. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
philosophy as a subject matter
general education
postermodernist literary ideas
Aristotle
11. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
happiness
Kant and George Berkeley
general education
pure secularism
12. World is an emanation of God's own being
truth from narratives and story-telling
Thomistic realism
Neo-Platonism
Abraham Lincoln
13. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Experimentalist values
only adequate education
categorical imperative
mirror of society and critic of society
14. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
paideia
Golden Mean and habit
noetic powers
analysis
15. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Liberally educated person
general education
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
16. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Individual Christian mind
controlled transaction
17. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Politics
matter
sole true end of education
18. 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
Nicocles
vocational training
Isocrates
Isocrates
19. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
revelation
idealist metaphysics
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
experimentalist aesthetic view
20. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Liberally educated person
normative
Xenophon
Experimentalist aesthetics
21. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
atheistic wing of existentialism
socialization theories
Republic
22. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:
hubris
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Theology
quadrivium
23. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
arete
Postmodernity educational practice
only adequate education
Epicurus
24. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
paideia
Abraham Joshua Heschel
innoculation method
state
25. List of works that have always been studied
Laws
Abraham Joshua Heschel
hubris
Canon
26. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Key elements of Greek education
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
confidence
epitome of postmodern person
27. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Monkey Trial
ethics
socialization theories
Memorabilia
28. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
rhetoric
ethics and aesthetics
linguistic descriptions
analytic
29. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
hairsplitting
general education
normative
Panathenaicus
30. Portion of being
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
actuality
collective Christian mind
analytic philosophy
31. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
hubris
Essence
Laws
analysis
32. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
organized knowledge
state
First Amendment activists
Integrated Education
33. One that shapes the whole person
idealist metaphysics
Peterson
existentialism
only adequate education
34. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
Liberally educated person
Dead White European Male
Plato and the arts
35. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
Amish
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
postmodernist aesthetics
36. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
atheistic wing of existentialism
reason
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
philosophical analysis
37. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
controlled transaction
descriptive
postmodernist aesthetics
Socratic method
38. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Allegory of the Cave
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Sophists
39. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
general education
Naturalism
collective Christian mind
Abraham Joshua Heschel
40. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence
Protagorean rationale for general education
Athens and Sparta
Abraham Lincoln
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
41. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
ideal language analysis
theoretical issues
philosophy of education
goal of empiricism
42. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Integrated Education
Modernity
synthetic
43. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
postmodernist aesthetics
tradition of liberal arts education
X Generation
Sigmund Freud
44. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Sophists
ethics and aesthetics
mirror of society and critic of society
conceptual mapping
45. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
practical issues
Athens
Athens
analysis
46. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
normative
Kant and George Berkeley
47. Knowledge most worth having
cognitive
self-knowledge
Socrates
active
48. Encourages individual choice
existentialism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
cultural literacy
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
49. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
socratic method
happiness
hubris
Tolkein approach
50. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
potentiality
metaphysics
normative
Tenure