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DSST Foundations Of Education

Subjects : dsst, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Experience is reality; activity-based






2. 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






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






4. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






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






7. What was created to protect academic freedom?






8. What medievals focused on






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






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






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






12. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






13. What is the building block of civilization?






14. World is an emanation of God's own being






15. Knowledge most worth having






16. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






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






18. General ideas about education and their logical implications






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






20. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






21. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






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






23. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






24. 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






25. Children born from 1981-1999






26. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






27. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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






29. 1600s; get to truth through science






30. Socrates' ultimate goal






31. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






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






33. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






34. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






35. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






37. Encourages individual choice






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






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






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






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






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






43. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






44. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






45. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?






46. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






47. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






48. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






49. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






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