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– Thought, Community and Inquiry – Spring 2020-
Midterm
This is an open-book, open-notes test. You have to use the primary
sources on Canvas. Every question is based on the sources mentioned in the
question. The length of the answers is left up to you but your answers must
be specific, clear, to the point, and detailed enough to properly explain the
question. Your answers must be typewritten and uploaded on Canvas.
The exam is due by Friday, March 20th, 2020.
Please answer all of the following questions. Your answers must be in
essay format and follow my numbering, i.e., (1) (a), (1) (b), etc.
(1) Plato’s Dialogues show Socrates in action. Explain the following:
(a) what are some salient features of Socratic education?
(b) Focusing on Euthyphro, explain what is the dialogue about.
(c) Explain in detail the method of Socratic education. What are
the specific characteristics of this method or the stages of this
method?
(d) Identify those characteristics or stages in Euthyphro.
(e) in your explanation, among other things, make sure to talk
about Socratic self-deprecation, how Socrates disposed of in-
adequate definitions, whether he arrives at a specific answer,
etc.
(2) In Experience and Education, Dewey explains his philosophy of ex-
perience
(a) Explain in detail in what way the notion of game is a form of
social control.
(b) What are some features that all games have in common?
(c) How is control expressed in a well-ordered school? And how is
control expressed in a traditional school?
(d) Does advanced planning by the teacher, according to Dewey,
is ‘inherently hostile to the legitimate freedom of those being
instructe’ ?
(e) Why does Dewey claim that “education is essentially a social
process”?
(3) Peters talks about his views on education in Education as Initiation
(a) Peters claims that it is a mistake to describe education from an
economic perspective. What are his reasons for this position?
(b) Does Peter claim that education should be viewed as ‘sociliza-
tion’ ? Explain.
(c) What about the view that education should be taken as ‘re-
form’ ? Explain.
(d) What about the view that education is ‘growth’ ? Explain.
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(e) What would Peters say about a highly trained professional?
(f) According to Peters, ‘education’ is ‘initiation.’ What does he
mean by that and how would a teacher act according to that
model?
(g) Peters claims that there are three criteria that ‘education’ sat-
isfies. What are they?
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Selection from: Classics of Western Philosophy, ed. Steven M. Cahn, Hackett Publishing Company, 2002
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