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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






2. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)






3. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






4. Father of History






5. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as






6. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






7. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






8. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






9. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






10. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






11. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






12. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation






13. 1600s; get to truth through science






14. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






15. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






16. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






17. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






18. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






19. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






20. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






21. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






22. What was created to protect academic freedom?






23. Encourages individual choice






24. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






25. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci






26. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






27. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






28. Music should be studied with a view to what?






29. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






30. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;






31. Learning is...






32. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?






33. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






34. Aspect which makes something tangible






35. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






36. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






37. Concept of the beautiful






38. Started naturalism






39. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






40. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world






41. Stress self-expression






42. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






43. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






44. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind






45. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances






46. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue






47. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






48. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






49. What is a 'DWEM'?






50. 'What is valuable?'