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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Categories of philosophy as an activity






2. 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






3. 'What is good?'






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






5. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






6. Technology is not always a __________.






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






8. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






9. Aspect which makes something tangible






10. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






11. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






12. 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






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






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






15. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






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






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






18. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






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






20. Started naturalism






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. Philosophy is both...?






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






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






27. Academic freedom does not mean _______






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






29. 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






30. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains






31. Quintessential educated medieval person






32. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






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






34. 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






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






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






37. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?






38. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






39. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






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






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






42. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






43. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






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






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






46. 'Man is the measure of all things'






47. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






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






49. 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






50. 'What is valuable?'