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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 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






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






3. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment






4. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






5. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






6. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






7. Started naturalism






8. Experience is reality; activity-based






9. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






10. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






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






12. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






13. 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






14. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






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






16. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






17. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






18. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






19. List of works that have always been studied






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






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






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

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






24. Quintessential educated medieval person






25. 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






26. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text






27. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






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






30. World is an emanation of God's own being






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






32. Two main philosophers of idealism






33. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






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






35. 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






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






37. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






38. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






39. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church






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






41. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






43. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






44. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






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






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






47. 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






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






49. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






50. Kant's general form of moral law