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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






2. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






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






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






5. Encourages individual choice






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






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






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






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






10. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'






11. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






12. Quintessential educated medieval person






13. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






14. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






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






16. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






17. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important






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






19. Portion of being






20. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against






21. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






22. 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






23. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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






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






26. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools






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






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






29. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






30. 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






31. Experimentalist students are to be both:






32. 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;






33. Father of History






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






35. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






36. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






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






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






39. Experience is reality; activity-based






40. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. One that shapes the whole person






47. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






48. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






49. What the medievals are criticized for






50. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind