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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible






3. 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






4. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions






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






6. Learning is...






7. World is permeated by divine essence






8. 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






9. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






10. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers

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11. 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






12. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






13. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






14. 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;






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






16. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






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






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






19. Knowledge most worth having






20. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






21. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






22. To teach men how to learn for themselves






23. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?






24. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






25. 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






26. Technology is not always a __________.






27. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






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






29. Capability to change in certain ways






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






31. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






32. Theoretical issues and practical issues






33. How was ancient Greece divided?






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






35. Most famous multiculturalist project






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






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






38. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






39. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






40. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






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






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






43. Portion of being






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






45. Children born from 1981-1999






46. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






47. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






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






50. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty