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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 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






2. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






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






5. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






6. 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






7. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise






14. What medievals focused on






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






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






17. What is a 'DWEM'?






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. How was ancient Greece divided?






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






24. List of works that have always been studied






25. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






26. Knowledge most worth having






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






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






29. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






30. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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






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






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






34. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






35. 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)






36. 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;






37. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical






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






39. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it






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






41. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing






42. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers






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






44. What Greeks mostly focused on






45. Quintessential educated medieval person






46. Experimentalist students are to be both:






47. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






48. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






49. 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






50. Martin Luther; John Calvin