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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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






3. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






4. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






5. 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






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






7. Categories of philosophy as an activity






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






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






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






11. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






12. Concept of the beautiful






13. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises






18. Started naturalism






19. 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






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






21. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






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






23. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






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






25. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






26. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






27. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






28. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






29. Stress self-expression






30. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






31. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






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






33. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






34. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






35. 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






36. 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






37. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






38. Consisted of subjects






39. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






40. World is permeated by divine essence






41. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






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






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






44. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?






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






46. What the medievals are criticized for






47. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






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






49. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






50. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition