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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Tenure
Athens
Order of Trivium
noetic powers
2. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Protagoras
Thoreau
reason
dogmatic theory
3. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
philosophical idealist
dogmatic theory
goal of liberal education
4. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
idealist theory of education
a healthy Christian theism
Laws
Peterson
5. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
sole true end of education
Experimentalist view of education
Republic
Zeno
6. Good and evil in constant battle
Jacques Derrida
Thoreau
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Cosmic dualism
7. List of works that have always been studied
Blessing
Protestant Reformation
worldview
Canon
8. Experience is reality; activity-based
Naturalism vs. Christianity
pragmatism
Arabasis
happiness
9. Capability to change in certain ways
a subject matter and an activity
existentialist view of education
Golden Mean and habit
potentiality
10. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
Plato's division of human decisions
Antidosis
Stanley Fish
Family
11. 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
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Aristotle
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
philosophical analysis
12. One that shapes the whole person
Antidosis
Abraham Joshua Heschel
transcendential idealism
only adequate education
13. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
philosophy as a subject matter
Key elements of Greek education
Hellenica
existentialism
14. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
rhetoric
Socrates
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
postmodernist aesthetics
15. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Memorabilia
existentialism
Outmoded
worldview
16. A healthy type of multiculturalism?
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Arabasis
happiness
Pluralism
17. Father of History
liberal education and career training
Arabasis
Herodotus
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
18. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
Key elements of Greek education
Trivium and Quadrivium
sauromatides
19. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Canon
form
Protagoras
Athens and Sparta
20. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
noetic powers
Criticism of existentialism
goal of empiricism
21. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
state
undergraduate schools
controlled transaction
experimentalist aesthetic view
22. 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
Politics
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
descriptive
23. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
theistic wing of existentialism
Republic
idealist metaphysics
Family
24. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
idealist metaphysics
reason
cultural literacy
25. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
tradition of liberal arts education
Euthydemus
Latin
hairsplitting
26. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
trivium
arete
religious zealots
responsibility theory
27. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Kant and George Berkeley
Cosmic dualism
Amish
cognitive
28. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
postermodernist literary ideas
xenophon
experiential
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
29. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
First Amendment activists
existentialist aesthetics
reason
empirical analytics
30. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Epistemology
Socrates
Politics
theoretical issues
31. 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
tradition of liberal arts education
up
Jacques Derrida
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
32. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?
paideia
worldview
collective Christian mind
vocational training
33. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero
Isocrates
Athens
multiculturalism
Sigmund Freud
34. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises
self-knowledge
only adequate education
Stanley Fish
Postmodernity educational practice
35. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
liberal learning
Golden Mean and habit
cognitive
Quadrivium
36. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
idealist value theory
Dead White European Male
Laws
Plato and the arts
37. Philosophy is both...?
Experimentalist view of education
experiential
a subject matter and an activity
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
38. 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
analytic
Plato
general education
Thracians
39. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
postmodernism
Republic
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Theology
40. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
cognitive
postmodernist theory of education
self-knowledge
41. Aspect which makes something tangible
Athens
matter
Experimentalist aesthetics
Herodotus
42. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Sigmund Freud
virtue
form
43. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Amish
Theology
Justice and meritocracy
hubris
44. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
sauromatides
general education
socratic method
leaner-centered approach
45. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Materialism
Isocrates
Order of Trivium
fundamental part of teaching
46. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing
cultural literacy
naturalistic cosmotogies
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
theistic wing of existentialism
47. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
maturational theories
idealist value theory
cognitive-stage theories
Peterson
48. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
atheistic wing of existentialism
controlled transaction
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
49. Learning is...
active
Leisure
Naturalism
worldview
50. 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
Essence
Politics
Sophists