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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






3. How was ancient Greece divided?






4. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






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






6. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






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






8. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






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






10. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






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






12. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






19. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






20. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






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






22. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






25. 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






26. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






27. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






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






29. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






30. All knowledge is derived from the senses






31. Good and evil in constant battle






32. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






33. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions






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






35. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;






36. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






37. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church






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






39. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






40. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






41. Technology is not always a __________.






42. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?






43. Experimentalist students are to be both:






44. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






45. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects






50. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here