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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
dialectic
a subject matter and an activity
Epistemology
2. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
philosophical analysis
Republic
idealist theory of education
Socratic method
3. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
Stanford University Students
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
4. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous
scholastic
Family
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
5. 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
ethics and aesthetics
Integrated Education
Justice and meritocracy
Nicomachean Ethics
6. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?
up
practical issues
rejected
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
7. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
ordinary language analysis
Aristotle
Thracians
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
8. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider
Tolkein approach
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
pragmatism
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
9. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Great defect in modern education
existentialism
epitome of postmodern person
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
10. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Essence
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
synthetic
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
11. 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
worldview
Socratic method
empiricism
Plato and the arts
12. What the medievals are criticized for
controlled transaction
virtue
Thomistic realism
hairsplitting
13. Consisted of subjects
Quadrivium
local government
Republic
consumerism
14. 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
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Politics
only adequate education
theistic wing of existentialism
15. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
Latin
Tolkein approach
socratic method
synthetic
16. Two categories of axiology
famous attack of medievals
Antidosis
practical side (CDE pattern)
ethics and aesthetics
17. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Xenophon
Jacques Derrida
actuality
mirror of society and critic of society
18. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already
Blessing
X Generation
controlled transaction
Republic
19. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
tradition of liberal arts education
division of controversial issues
existentialist aesthetics
empiricism
20. 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
Neil Postman
form
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Herodotus
21. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
state
potentiality
ages that Trivium should be used
critique of great texts of western world
22. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language
Republic
liberal education and career training
famous attack of medievals
paideia
23. 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
criticism of latin
Sophists
ordinary language analysis
Nicocles
24. What medievals focused on
undergraduate schools
revelation
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Athens and Sparta
25. 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
xenophon
Order of Trivium
Dead White European Male
practical side (CDE pattern)
26. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Panathenaicus
empiricism
naturalism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
27. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
revelation
Athens and Sparta
general education
hallmark of liberal arts education
28. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
experiential
Justice and meritocracy
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Abraham Joshua Heschel
29. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
atheistic wing of existentialism
Family
mirror of society and critic of society
30. 3 traditional philosophies of education
hallmark of liberal arts education
Arabasis
Laws
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
31. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
Stanford University Students
Laws
consumerism
idealist value theory
32. No God
Nicocles
Naturalism vs. Christianity
synthetic
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
33. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
local government
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
synthetic
fundamental part of teaching
34. Human person is a spiritual or rational being
Stanley Fish
postmodernist aesthetics
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
idealist metaphysics
35. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
postmodernity
dogmatic theory
casuity
Allegory of the Cave
36. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
Pluralism
postmodernity
Quadrivium
37. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
Jacques Derrida
metaphysics
Plato and the arts
Experimentalist values
38. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
division of controversial issues
casuity
innoculation method
39. 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
Tolkein approach
Nicocles
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
difference between leisure and amusement
40. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
philosophical analysis
Naturalist aim of education
Jacques Derrida
41. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
Kant and George Berkeley
leaner-centered approach
naturalistic cosmotogies
controlled transaction
42. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
Thomistic realism
synthetic
dogmatic theory
43. 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
national government
metaphysics
Plato
Panathenaicus
44. Father of History
Herodotus
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
Plato
45. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
Trivium and Quadrivium
liberal education and career training
responsibility theory
X Generation
46. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
linguistic descriptions
Protagorean rationale for general education
consumerism
47. 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
Panathenaicus
organized knowledge
critique of great texts of western world
in the home
48. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
experimentalist aesthetic view
postermodernist literary ideas
tradition of liberal arts education
49. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
postmodernist aesthetics
existentialism
truth from narratives and story-telling
Justice and meritocracy
50. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
confidence
Tolkein approach
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
consumerism