Ch 9

Education

 

MATCHING QUESTIONS I: PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS

Match the description in column B with the term in column A.

 

 

Column A

Column B

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1.       progressivism

a.   key element of the “back to basics” approach; emphasizes traditional disciplines

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2.       epistemology

b.   study of right and wrong

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3.       core curriculum

c.   integrates academics with efforts to improve society

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4.       social reconstructionism

d.   claims sensory experience is the basis of all knowledge

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5.       Cartesian dualism

e.   viewing one’s own culture as superior

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6.       ethics

f.    study of how knowledge is gained

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7.       Great Books

g.   belief in materialism and idealism as foundation of reality

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8.       existentialism

h.   combination of inductive and deductive reasoning

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9.       ethnocentrism

i.    emphasizes democracy, experience, and relevance

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10.       empiricism

j.    belief that change is illusory

 

 

k.   curriculum at perennialist schools such as St. John’s College

 

 

l.    stresses free individual development

 

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MATCHING QUESTIONS II: EDUCATORS AND PHILOSOPHERS

Match the description in column B with the educator in column A.

 

 

 

Column A

Column B

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11.       Plato

a.   leading advocate of behaviorism

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12.       Paulo Freire

b.   popularized term “essentialism” in 1930s

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13.       Robert Hutchins

c.   advocate of “praxis;” exiled for his work turning schooling into a liberating force

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14.       B.F. Skinner

d.   believed virtue comes from holding to the middle ground between two extremes (Golden Mean)

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15.       Aristotle

e.   author of Cultural Literacy

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16.       E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

f.    head of the Coalition of Essential Schools

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17.       Mortimer Adler

g.   Paideia Proposal author, advocate of perennialism

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18.       A.S. Neill

h.   disciple of Socrates; founded the Academy

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19.       William Bagley

i.     advocate of “engaged pedagogy”

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20.       bell hooks

j.    challenged students primarily through questions

 

 

k.   champion of perennialism who instituted Great Books curriculum at the University of Chicago

 

 

l.    founder of Summerhill, the famous existentialist school

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