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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






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






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






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






5. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis






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






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






8. Most famous multiculturalist project






9. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






10. 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






11. Use women more as slaves






12. Two main philosophers of idealism






13. What was created to protect academic freedom?






14. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






15. Technology is not always a __________.






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






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






18. 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






19. Nature of any given thing






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






21. World is permeated by divine essence






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






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






24. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






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






26. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






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






28. Knowledge most worth having






29. 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






30. List of works that have always been studied






31. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on






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






33. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






34. Categories of philosophy as an activity






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






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






37. 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






38. Quintessential educated medieval person






39. What Greeks mostly focused on






40. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






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






42. 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






43. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






45. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language






46. 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






47. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






48. Philosophy is both...?






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






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