PhiloEd

Question 1

Involves the study of patterns and methodologies of rules of inference

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Logic

Question 2

Asks questions about the nature of being

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Metaphysics

Question 3

Asks questions about how we know things

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Epistemology

Question 4

Involves reflections on the nature of beauty

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Aesthetics

Question 5

When something is valued because of what you can do with it

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Instrumental

Question 6

Love of wisdom

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Philosophy

Question 7

When something is valued for its own sake

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Intrinsic

Question 8

Asks questions about what is right or wrong or good or bad

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Ethics

Question 9

The basing of knowledge on experience and evidence

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Empiricism

Question 10

Comes from the Greek work schole, which means leisure

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School

Question 11

Comes from the Latin word educere, which means bringing out

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Education

Question 12

Stress the child’s development from within

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Progressivists

Question 13

Teacher-centred approaches

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Essentialism and Perennialism

Question 14

Student-centred approaches

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Progressivism, Social Reconstructionism, and Existentialism

Question 15

Students don’t just receive knowledge passively; they actively work to integrate new information into their current understandings.

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Constructivism

Question 16

The students have choices concerning what to learn and the instructional strategies actively involve students in their own learning

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Student-centred

Question 17

The teacher is prominent in the classroom, determining, and being the center of curricula and instructional strategies.

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Teacher-centred

Question 18

The teacher draws students’ inner reasoning out using probing questions

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Socratic discussions

Question 19

Rules, concepts, and theories are taught first, often explicitly, followed by examples and activities to support learning.

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Deductive teaching:

Question 20

A philosophy of education based on the belief that there is a changeless core curriculum that everyone should know.

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Perennialism

Question 21

A philosophy of education that focuses on the individual’s search for meaning.

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Existentialism

Question 22

A philosophy of education based on the belief that there is a core curriculum that is responsive the times and that everyone should know.

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Essentialism

Question 23

A philosophy of education that focuses on a curriculum of interest to students and experiential learning.

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Progressivism

Question 24

A philosophy of education that endorses a curriculum that benefits society by promoting equity.

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Social reconstructionism

Question 25

The only time my education was interrupted was while I was in school

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Winston Churchill

Question 26

Never interrupt a concentrating child

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Maria Montessori

Question 27

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

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Mark Twain

Question 28

My pupil will hurt himself oftener than yours, but he will always be merry; your pupils may receive fewer injuries, but they are always thwarted, constrained, and sad."

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JJ Rousseau

Question 29

Bring not up your children in learning by compulsion and fear but by playing and pleasure.

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Roger Ascham

Question 30

Trivium

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Rhetoric, logic, grammar

Question 31

Quadrivium

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Music, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy