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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






2. 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)






3. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






4. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






5. 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






6. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia






7. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






8. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






9. Two categories of axiology






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






11. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






12. Stress self-expression






13. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






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






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






16. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






17. 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






18. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'






19. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






20. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






21. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.






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






23. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






24. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






25. List of works that have always been studied






26. 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






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






28. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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






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






31. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






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






33. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider






34. 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






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






36. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






37. Theoretical issues and practical issues






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






39. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






40. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






41. 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






42. Good and evil in constant battle






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






44. Music should be studied with a view to what?






45. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






46. Father of History






47. 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






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






49. World is permeated by divine essence






50. Knowledge most worth having