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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
empirical analytics
paideia
confidence
2. How was ancient Greece divided?
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Socratic method
Theology
epitome of postmodern person
3. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
trivium
Stanley Fish
experimentalist aesthetic view
transcendential idealism
4. 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
ages that Trivium should be used
Thoreau
cognitive-stage theories
theistic wing of existentialism
5. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
liberal learning
Politics
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
aesthetics
6. Knowledge most worth having
philosophy as a subject matter
division of controversial issues
cognitive
self-knowledge
7. World is an emanation of God's own being
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
preciseness
Neo-Platonism
national government
8. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?
postermodernist literary ideas
rejected
Zeno
general education
9. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education
ideal language analysis
hairsplitting
virtue
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
10. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
philosophical idealist
atheistic wing of existentialism
arete
analytic
11. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question
hairsplitting
Socratic method
Sir Francis Bacon
empirical analytics
12. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
religious zealots
Tenure
linguistic descriptions
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
13. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives
normative
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Outmoded
confidence
14. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice
Neil Postman
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Against the Sophists
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
15. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
idealist value theory
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
practical side (CDE pattern)
16. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
general education
national government
Laws
potentiality
17. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship
Memorabilia
Protagoras
synthetic
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
18. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
local government
liberal education and career training
Allegory of the Cave
existentialism
19. What do Americans have the most of in education?
idealist theory of education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
confidence
Family
20. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
confidence
Euthydemus
transcendential idealism
aesthetics
21. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
consumerism
socialization theories
casuity
leaner-centered approach
22. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
philosophical analysis
happiness
axiology
Monkey Trial
23. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?
Amish
idealist theory of education
Abraham Joshua Heschel
multiculturalism
24. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Xenophon
Antidosis
trivium
Experimentalist values
25. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language
dialectic
hairsplitting
Sparta
postmodernity
26. What was created to protect academic freedom?
categorical imperative
philosophical idealist
Aristotle
Tenure
27. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?
postermodernist literary ideas
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
flute
complete moral education
28. One that shapes the whole person
Naturalism vs. Christianity
only adequate education
Plato
Individual Christian mind
29. 3 traditional philosophies of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
existentialist aesthetics
Isocrates
Naturalism
30. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
Arabasis
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
X Generation
Integrated Education
31. Stress self-expression
Protagoras
Golden Mean and habit
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
maturational theories
32. What Sayers says is the best language to learn
conceptual mapping
Athens
Latin
rhetoric
33. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing
Justice and meritocracy
state
rhetoric
leaner-centered approach
34. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Socrates
maturational theories
Athens
35. To teach men how to learn for themselves
sole true end of education
Experimentalist view of education
Naturalism
Protagorean rationale for general education
36. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl
Abraham Lincoln
Kant and George Berkeley
Socratic method
Epistemology
37. Academic freedom does not mean _______
difference between leisure and amusement
Kant and George Berkeley
Laws
Strict neutrality
38. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
Dead White European Male
Trivium and Quadrivium
Experimentalist values
39. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric
Antidosis
liberal learning
Naturalism vs. Christianity
trivium
40. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
existentialism
Sparta
Stanley Fish
particularism
41. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
existentialism
casuity
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
hubris
42. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
philosophy as a subject matter
Sir Francis Bacon
analytic philosophy
43. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
collective Christian mind
Hellenica
sauromatides
Aristotle
44. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
value neutrality
Protagoras
Strict neutrality
45. Learning is...
Socrates
arete
organized knowledge
active
46. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
Panathenaicus
Sparta
Canon
form
47. Nature of any given thing
mirror of society and critic of society
goal of empiricism
local government
Essence
48. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
existentialist aesthetics
Leisure
Theology
Great defect in modern education
49. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
Great defect in modern education
trivium
noetic powers
existence precedes essence
50. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
Amish
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
John Dewey
the mean - the possible - and the becoming