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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






8. How was ancient Greece divided?






9. Father of History






10. 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






11. Capability to change in certain ways






12. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






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






14. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






15. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






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






17. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation






18. Quintessential educated medieval person






19. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers






20. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis






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. Started naturalism






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being






28. 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






29. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






30. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. Knowledge most worth having






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






36. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty






37. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






38. To teach men how to learn for themselves






39. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education






40. All knowledge is derived from the senses






41. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






42. What is the building block of civilization?






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






44. What was created to protect academic freedom?






45. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






46. 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






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






48. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






49. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa






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