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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students






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






3. 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






4. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






5. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






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






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






8. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






9. What medievals focused on






10. It is a dead language






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






12. Concept of the beautiful






13. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






15. Martin Luther; John Calvin






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






17. 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






18. What Greeks mostly focused on






19. Experience is reality; activity-based






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






21. 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






22. 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?'






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






24. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






25. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






26. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






27. 'What is valuable?'






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






29. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as






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






31. Good and evil in constant battle






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






33. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






34. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






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






37. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






38. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






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






40. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






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






42. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






43. Knowledge most worth having






44. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






45. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






46. 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






47. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






48. Quintessential educated medieval person






49. Technology is not always a __________.






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







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