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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times






2. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






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






4. Portion of being






5. 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






6. Encourages individual choice






7. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






8. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving






9. Experimentalist students are to be both:






10. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






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






12. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






13. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






14. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






19. 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






20. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






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






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






23. 'What is valuable?'






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






25. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems






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

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






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






29. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth






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






31. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises






32. One that shapes the whole person






33. The 'love of wisdom'






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






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






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






37. Technology is not always a __________.






38. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






40. It is a dead language






41. Most famous multiculturalist project






42. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances






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






44. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






45. 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






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






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






48. Started naturalism






49. What Greeks mostly focused on






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