Vocabulary Chart

Vocabulary Chart

DIRECTIONS: Complete this vocabulary chart using your reading assignments (i.e., the Gutek textbook and internet database searching). Definitions are to be technically specific to philosophy of education. Instead of copying the definition verbatim, paraphrase it in words that would be meaningful to someone new to the field of philosophy. Avoid using the term itself in the definition. The definition need not be lengthy but must be long enough to convey the full meaning.

1. philosophy

2. worldview

3. metaphysics

4. cosmology

5. teleology

6. theology

7. atheism

8. pantheism

9. deism

10. theism

11. polytheism

12. monotheism

13. anthropology

14. ontology

15. epistemology

16. skepticism

17. agnosticism

18. a priori

19. a posteriori

20. special revelation

21. general revelation

22. logic

23. correspondence validity

24. coherence validity

25. pragmatic validity

26. axiology

27. ethics

28. aesthetics

29. dichotomy

(Pearcey book summary)

30. curriculum

31. pedagogy

32. modernism

33. logocentrism

34. metanarrative

35. deconstruction

36. limited absolutism

37. unlimited absolutism

38. relativism

39. positivism

40. utopian

41. transmission

42. transformation

43. naturalism

44. materialism

45. eclecticism

46. anthropocentric

47. Absolute Mind

48. liberal arts