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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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






3. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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






5. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






6. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?






7. What medievals focused on






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






9. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






10. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






11. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






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






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






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






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






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






17. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






18. Experimentalist students are to be both:






19. 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






20. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






22. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






23. Aspect which makes something tangible






24. 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






25. All knowledge is derived from the senses






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






27. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






28. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity






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






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






31. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






32. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






33. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






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






35. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






36. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






37. Capability to change in certain ways






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






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






40. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






41. Encourages individual choice






42. Experience is reality; activity-based






43. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






44. Consisted of subjects






45. 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






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






47. What the medievals are criticized for






48. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






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






50. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race