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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






3. Learning is...






4. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






5. 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;






6. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against






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






8. 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






9. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






10. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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






17. 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






18. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






19. 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)






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






21. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






22. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






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






24. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






25. Consisted of subjects






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






27. 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






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






29. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






30. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






31. List of works that have always been studied






32. What the medievals are criticized for






33. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






34. Categories of philosophy as an activity






35. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






36. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






37. Aspect which makes something tangible






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






39. 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






40. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






41. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30






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






43. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






44. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






45. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'






46. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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






48. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?






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






50. 3 traditional philosophies of education