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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






2. Experience is reality; activity-based






3. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






4. 'What is valuable?'






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. Aspect which makes something tangible






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






8. 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






9. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






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






11. What do Americans have the most of in education?






12. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






13. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






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






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






17. Portion of being






18. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






20. 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






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






22. Father of History






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






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






25. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






26. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






27. 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






28. Knowledge most worth having






29. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






30. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






31. Use women more as slaves






32. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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






34. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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






36. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this






37. What is a 'DWEM'?






38. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






39. 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






40. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






41. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






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






43. Children born from 1981-1999






44. 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






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






46. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






47. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it






48. Rational structure of Christian thought






49. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






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