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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Consisted of subjects
analytic philosophy
logic
Quadrivium
normative
2. What is the building block of civilization?
Family
Protagoras
Strict neutrality
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
3. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
Cosmic dualism
California and Texas
descriptive
Lyceum
4. Theoretical issues and practical issues
existentialism
division of controversial issues
Plato
Euthydemus
5. Martin Luther; John Calvin
Protestant Reformation
multiculturalism
Plato and the arts
ethics
6. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless
Socrates
analytic philosophy
ideal language analysis
postermodernist literary ideas
7. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
existentialism
Cosmic dualism
fundamental part of teaching
cognitive
8. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
Republic
philosophical analysis
Trivium and Quadrivium
9. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible
Aristotle
division of controversial issues
tradition of liberal arts education
value neutrality
10. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
analytic
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
vocational training
11. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired
Middle Ages
Experimentalist aesthetics
up
Socratic method
12. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?
tradition of liberal arts education
existence precedes essence
local government
Order of Trivium
13. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
Middle Ages
Nicomachean Ethics
epitome of postmodern person
transcendential idealism
14. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world
Cosmic dualism
Republic
Protagoras
aesthetics
15. 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
analytic philosophy
Sir Francis Bacon
fundamental part of teaching
paideia
16. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations
Stanford University Students
Naturalism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
pure secularism
17. Philosophy is both...?
subjective idealism
a subject matter and an activity
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Naturalism vs. Christianity
18. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Aristotle
theoretical issues
up
19. 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
scholastic
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
innoculation method
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
20. 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
linguistic descriptions
Nicocles
Herodotus
vocational training
21. Good and evil in constant battle
Cosmic dualism
existentialist aesthetics
cognitive-stage theories
liberal learning
22. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains
responsibility theory
Arabasis
scholastic
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
23. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
descriptive
hubris
Abraham Joshua Heschel
idealist value theory
24. Technology is not always a __________.
Isocrates
socialization theories
Blessing
tradition of liberal arts education
25. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
ordinary language analysis
criticism of latin
analytic philosophy
Naturalism
26. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
Neil Postman
Isocrates
Arabasis
27. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Naturalism vs. Christianity
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
Strict neutrality
Blessing
28. 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
Politics
conceptual mapping
Liberally educated person
Abraham Joshua Heschel
29. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
X Generation
Isocrates
philosophical idealist
30. To teach men how to learn for themselves
modernity
goal of empiricism
sole true end of education
socialization theories
31. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Protagoras
socratic method
transcendential idealism
32. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
maturational theories
liberal learning
Kant and George Berkeley
philosophical idealist
33. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Integrated Education
Leisure
Family
difference between leisure and amusement
34. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
Amish
Monkey Trial
Experimentalist aesthetics
complete moral education
35. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
Dead White European Male
Materialism
liberal education and career training
36. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
innoculation method
Xenophon
worldview
liberation to truth
37. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just
Plato
pragmatism
Justice and meritocracy
general education
38. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
ages that Trivium should be used
Neil Postman
logic
39. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
philosophical idealist
hallmark of liberal arts education
Naturalism
Arabasis
40. 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
Socratic method
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Aristotle
goal of liberal education
41. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
subjective idealism
practical side (CDE pattern)
Leisure
complete moral education
42. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
hallmark of liberal arts education
sauromatides
Materialism
43. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
philosophy
Athens
analysis
Experimentalist values
44. 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
atheistic wing of existentialism
truth from narratives and story-telling
Golden Mean and habit
normative
45. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Experimentalist aesthetics
Experimentalist view of education
normative
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
46. Two main philosophers of idealism
Kant and George Berkeley
ethics
pure secularism
Plato and the arts
47. 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
consumerism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
matter
Herodotus
48. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Middle Ages
Key elements of Greek education
naturalism
idealist metaphysics
49. Categories of philosophy as an activity
analytic philosophy
Protestant Reformation
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
arete
50. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living
practical issues
consumerism
religious zealots
postermodernist literary ideas