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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






2. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






3. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






4. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis






5. List of works that have always been studied






6. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






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






8. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






9. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






10. No God






11. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it






12. Learning is...






13. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






14. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






15. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






16. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






17. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on






18. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






19. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






20. 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






21. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






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






23. 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






24. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






25. 1600s; get to truth through science






26. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger






27. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






28. 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






29. 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






30. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education






31. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






32. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






33. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






34. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






35. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






36. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?






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






38. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






39. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






40. 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






41. Encourages individual choice






42. How was ancient Greece divided?






43. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






44. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






45. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






46. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






47. Experimentalist students are to be both:






48. Consisted of subjects






49. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






50. Nature of any given thing