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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
analytic
vocational training
transcendential idealism
Thracians
2. List of works that have always been studied
modernity
Canon
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Sophists
3. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
organized knowledge
logic
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
4. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Golden Mean and habit
Latin
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Experimentalist aesthetics
5. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
Platonic concept of education
general education
Neil Postman
6. 'What is good?'
paideia
ethics
Quadrivium
Lyceum
7. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
Aristotle
national government
flute
ages that Trivium should be used
8. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it
Abraham Lincoln
Modernity
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Thomistic realism
9. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important
practical issues
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
Allegory of the Cave
analytic philosophy
10. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Against the Sophists
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Trivium and Quadrivium
Justice and meritocracy
11. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
conceptual mapping
preciseness
noetic powers
Zeno
12. Music should be studied with a view to what?
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
empiricism
local government
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
13. Portion of being
actuality
dialectic
controlled transaction
cultural literacy
14. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?
quadrivium
in the home
Experimentalist values
Isocrates
15. Kant's general form of moral law
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Isocrates
pragmatism
categorical imperative
16. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education
responsibility theory
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
division of controversial issues
flute
17. What is the building block of civilization?
hairsplitting
Family
flute
dialectic
18. Consisted of subjects
consumerism
Quadrivium
Outmoded
Herodotus
19. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
Aristotle
postmodernism
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy as a subject matter
20. 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
Naturalism
Socrates
preciseness
Socratic method
21. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Kant and George Berkeley
cognitive
X Generation
postmodernist theory of education
22. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education
normative philosophy of education
self-knowledge
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
Aristotle
23. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
First Amendment activists
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
dialectic
Athens
24. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
epitome of postmodern person
worldview
a healthy Christian theism
25. 'Man is the measure of all things'
criticism of latin
Theology
Protagoras
Strict neutrality
26. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students
Sir Francis Bacon
Cosmic dualism
idealist theory of education
Memorabilia
27. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
a subject matter and an activity
cultural literacy
existentialist view of education
postermodernist literary ideas
28. Most famous multiculturalist project
ideal language analysis
postmodernist aesthetics
critique of great texts of western world
California and Texas
29. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis
general education
socialization theories
Protagoras
analysis
30. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
axiology
philosophical analysis
Arabasis
idealist metaphysics
31. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
California and Texas
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
rhetoric
modernity
32. Concept of the beautiful
theoretical issues
aesthetics
Theology
Amish
33. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education
pragmatism
Key elements of Greek education
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
mirror of society and critic of society
34. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
Lyceum
critique of great texts of western world
Protestant Reformation
35. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
experiential
preciseness
idealist theory of education
modernity
36. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
liberal education and career training
normative philosophy of education
Order of Trivium
religious zealots
37. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
goal of liberal education
casuity
scholastic
Experimentalist view of education
38. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
Nicomachean Ethics
preciseness
Amish
39. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race
Liberally educated person
dialectic
epitome of postmodern person
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
40. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
worldview
Quadrivium
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Laws
41. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Integrated Education
Athens
general education
Neil Postman
42. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Protestant Reformation
a subject matter and an activity
empirical analytics
43. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
ideal language analysis
Isocrates
idealist value theory
atheistic wing of existentialism
44. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
paideia
Stanley Fish
Justice and meritocracy
Order of Trivium
45. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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46. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
Middle Ages
postmodernist aesthetics
Abraham Lincoln
47. Philosophy is both...?
a subject matter and an activity
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Sparta
48. Nature of any given thing
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
experiential
Essence
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
49. Learning is...
responsibility theory
Protagoras
Aristotle
active
50. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being
Arabasis
metaphysics
axiology
existentialism