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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Use women more as slaves
Plato's division of human decisions
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Thracians
socialization theories
2. 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
theistic wing of existentialism
idealist theory of education
Stanford University Students
pure secularism
3. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
philosophical analysis
a subject matter and an activity
socialization theories
dogmatic theory
4. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
Protestant Reformation
X Generation
Amish
Nicomachean Ethics
5. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand
postmodernist aesthetics
Antidosis
Sigmund Freud
postmodernist theory of education
6. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
undergraduate schools
liberal learning
idealist value theory
mirror of society and critic of society
7. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
descriptive
theoretical issues
analysis
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
8. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
casuity
Golden Mean and habit
Abraham Joshua Heschel
9. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems
Allegory of the Cave
postmodernist theory of education
Modernity
Panathenaicus
10. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
idealist metaphysics
Pluralism
leaner-centered approach
complete moral education
11. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
categorical imperative
naturalistic cosmotogies
collective Christian mind
embrace them intellectually
12. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
a subject matter and an activity
Postmodernity educational practice
reader-response theory
empiricism
13. 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
potentiality
mirror of society and critic of society
Order of Trivium
transcendential idealism
14. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
Experimentalist aesthetics
normative
Monkey Trial
revelation
15. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Justice and meritocracy
pragmatism
Amish
atheistic wing of existentialism
16. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
liberation to truth
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Joshua Heschel
metaphysics
17. Experimentalist students are to be both:
mirror of society and critic of society
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
only adequate education
analytic
18. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'
Liberally educated person
metaphysics
noetic powers
logic
19. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
descriptive
leaner-centered approach
philosophical analysis
practical side (CDE pattern)
20. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
ideal language analysis
quadrivium
Strict neutrality
21. Portion of being
empirical analytics
Monkey Trial
actuality
multiculturalism
22. Philosophy is both...?
goal of liberal education
famous attack of medievals
a subject matter and an activity
ethics and aesthetics
23. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
Platonic concept of education
local government
Thracians
liberation to truth
24. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue
theoretical issues
arete
a subject matter and an activity
responsibility theory
25. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Experimentalist aesthetics
Epicurus
local government
Tolkein approach
26. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
existentialism
Family
value neutrality
27. 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
empiricism
Xenophon
theistic wing of existentialism
Athens
28. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
Euthydemus
cultural literacy
complete moral education
ages that Trivium should be used
29. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Modernity
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
philosophical idealist
Middle Ages
30. 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
revelation
general education
ordinary language analysis
Peterson
31. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom
postermodernist literary ideas
John Dewey
Thoreau
practical issues
32. 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
only adequate education
trivium
Panathenaicus
Epicurus
33. General ideas about education and their logical implications
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
socialization theories
Arabasis
theoretical issues
34. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
Isocrates
socratic method
normative
linguistic descriptions
35. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Neo-Platonism
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Canon
postmodernist aesthetics
36. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Protagoras
sole true end of education
Golden Mean and habit
Epistemology
37. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
virtue
Aristotle
Thomistic realism
Experimentalist aesthetics
38. Quintessential educated medieval person
potentiality
scholastic
Athens
reader-response theory
39. 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
Euthydemus
Essence
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
casuity
40. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
cognitive
embrace them intellectually
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
postmodernist theory of education
41. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
Herodotus
Aristotle
Republic
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
42. Most famous multiculturalist project
famous attack of medievals
critique of great texts of western world
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Golden Mean and habit
43. 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
Order of Trivium
difference between leisure and amusement
Protagoras
Leisure
44. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
Thomistic realism
flute
Arabasis
Hindu Patheism
45. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
organized knowledge
Aristotle
46. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
experimentalist aesthetic view
Herodotus
flute
conceptual mapping
47. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
vocational training
noetic powers
ages that Trivium should be used
goal of empiricism
48. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
general education
consumerism
Aristotle
Nicocles
49. Martin Luther; John Calvin
local government
Integrated Education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
Protestant Reformation
50. 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
Golden Mean and habit
philosophical idealist
descriptive
Athens