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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Martin Luther; John Calvin






2. 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






3. Aspect which makes something tangible






4. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






5. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






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






7. 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






8. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






9. Learning is...






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






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






12. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






13. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






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






15. 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






16. Academic freedom does not mean _______






17. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






18. Started naturalism






19. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






20. Children born from 1981-1999






21. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?






22. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






23. Stress self-expression






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






25. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation






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






27. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






28. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






29. Most famous multiculturalist project






30. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






31. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






32. 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






33. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






34. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






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






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






44. List of works that have always been studied






45. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught






46. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






47. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa






48. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






49. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






50. Theoretical issues and practical issues