PhiloEd Flashcards
Week 3
philo
love
sophos
wisdom
adelphos
brother
logos
word; speech; study of
theo
god
axio
worth
episteme
knowledge
meta
after; beyond; above
physic
the natural things
This teacher believes in teaching those skills that will help her students get jobs in the future. As the job market changes, her curriculum changes too. She lectures to her students and tests them on the knowledge they were supposed to have learned.
Essentialism
This teacher thinks students should be given choices in the classroom and in the curriculum, which they move through at their own pace. She doesn’t penalize lateness as she thinks students should choose when to show up both physically and/or mentally.
Existentialism
This teacher helps her students build upon their personal experiences while solving problems and discussing issues. Her classes are hands-on and make use of active engagement and cooperative learning.
Progressivism
This teacher wants her students to learn some rigorous approaches to thinking by reading and discussing the same important classic texts she studied from. She lectures and uses Socratic discussion.
Perennialism
This teacher values building a better world and sees her classroom as a place where that can happen. She encourages her students to think and reflect about social issues.
Social Reconstructionism
Related to emotions
Affective
Giving help or support
Auxiliary
The study of how we experience things and the meanings things have in our experience
Phenomenological
Connected with wishes, intentions, or effort to do something
Conative
Related to thinking or mental processes
Cognitive
Aristotle rejected Plato’s teaching and was not influenced by them
False
Confucius paid more attention to the reason and critical reflection than Aristotle did.
False
Confucius and Aristotle believed that people had responsibility towards the community.
True
According to the Morimichi Kato (one of the readings), fans of Aristotle can learn from Confucius’s valuing of ritual and consideration of the body.
True
Aristotle and Confucius both believed in the responsibility of the individual towards the community and that the community could justifiably make moral demands on the individual. They valued the moral educational power of a community.
This makes them both …
Communitarians
The branch of philosophy that deals with the notion of knowledge itself and what it means to know something.
Epistemology
The study of what sort of things really exist and what the world consists of.
Ontology
Exercises that are part of the study and development of logic.
Dialectics
