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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30






2. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






3. 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






4. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






5. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






6. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools






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






8. 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;






9. No God






10. 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






11. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






13. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






14. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






15. What was created to protect academic freedom?






16. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains






17. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted






18. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






19. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






20. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






21. 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)






22. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being






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






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






25. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?






26. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise






27. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






28. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






29. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






30. Good and evil in constant battle






31. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






32. 1600s; get to truth through science






33. Experimentalist students are to be both:






34. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






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






36. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






37. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






38. Philosophy is both...?






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






40. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






41. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






42. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






43. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning

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44. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






45. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






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






47. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






48. One that shapes the whole person






49. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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