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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
ethics
multiculturalism
socialization theories
Quadrivium
2. 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
socialization theories
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Socrates
3. A harmful type of multiculturalism?
particularism
Lyceum
sauromatides
Dorian music
4. Technology is not always a __________.
Blessing
axiology
Order of Trivium
local government
5. 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
difference between leisure and amusement
trivium
Hindu Patheism
particularism
6. Two main philosophers of idealism
Stanford University Students
Integrated Education
Kant and George Berkeley
Politics
7. Use women more as slaves
Athens
Thracians
theoretical issues
Aristotle
8. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
active
logic
experiential
Platonic concept of education
9. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
Sparta
liberal learning
only adequate education
goal of liberal education
10. 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
Republic
Isocrates
philosophy as a subject matter
practical side (CDE pattern)
11. What the medievals are criticized for
preciseness
existentialism
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
hairsplitting
12. Socrates' ultimate goal
virtue
philosophy as a subject matter
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
13. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Neil Postman
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Athens
Abraham Lincoln
14. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text
existentialist aesthetics
reader-response theory
philosophy of education
Stanley Fish
15. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true
local government
cognitive
Abraham Lincoln
embrace them intellectually
16. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse
Experimentalist view of education
conceptual mapping
mirror of society and critic of society
Socratic method
17. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Arabasis
synthetic
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Leisure
18. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Neo-Platonism
a subject matter and an activity
Liberally educated person
transcendential idealism
19. Experience is reality; activity-based
mirror of society and critic of society
local government
pragmatism
sauromatides
20. 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
postermodernist literary ideas
innoculation method
Socratic method
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
21. 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
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Athens and Sparta
Against the Sophists
trivium
22. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
Experimentalist aesthetics
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
sole true end of education
Middle Ages
23. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions
Family
Socratic method
Epistemology
worldview
24. Portion of being
empiricism
Leisure
actuality
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
25. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
Laws
Lyceum
Aristotle
Order of Trivium
26. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
Protagorean rationale for general education
casuity
Strict neutrality
hubris
27. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
metaphysics
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
existentialist aesthetics
Materialism
28. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
Experimentalist view of education
cultural literacy
Sir Francis Bacon
29. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'
Justice and meritocracy
vocational training
linguistic descriptions
postmodernist aesthetics
30. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
Allegory of the Cave
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Justice and meritocracy
Thomistic realism
31. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
conceptual mapping
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
difference between leisure and amusement
Dorian music
32. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
existentialism
Arabasis
trivium
embrace them intellectually
33. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Thomistic realism
preciseness
philosophy of education
axiology
34. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Materialism
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Naturalist aim of education
35. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
controlled transaction
multiculturalism
responsibility theory
philosophy as a subject matter
36. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
consumerism
Lyceum
analytic philosophy
noetic powers
37. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools
Justice and meritocracy
Thoreau
John Dewey
linguistic descriptions
38. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game
Pluralism
postmodernist aesthetics
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
naturalism
39. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
trivium
ideal language analysis
philosophy of education
40. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil
collective Christian mind
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
postermodernist literary ideas
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
41. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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42. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
Naturalism
potentiality
consumerism
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
43. 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)
existentialism
Lyceum
Protagoras
Sir Francis Bacon
44. What is a 'DWEM'?
Dead White European Male
Sophists
Isocrates
actuality
45. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
Monkey Trial
Sparta
Naturalism vs. Christianity
46. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances
cognitive-stage theories
potentiality
xenophon
Platonic concept of education
47. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
descriptive
flute
Xenophon
48. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
critique of great texts of western world
Euthydemus
Abraham Lincoln
matter
49. Martin Luther; John Calvin
worldview
vocational training
Republic
Protestant Reformation
50. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?
Blessing
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
metaphysics
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle