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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 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






2. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






3. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






4. Aspect which makes something tangible






5. 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






6. Encourages individual choice






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






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






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






10. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






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






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






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






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






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






16. Concept of the beautiful






17. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






18. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






19. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






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






21. Portion of being






22. Experience is reality; activity-based






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






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






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






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






27. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






28. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






29. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






30. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise






31. 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






32. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students






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






34. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






35. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






36. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.






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






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






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






40. 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






41. What is the building block of civilization?






42. 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






43. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






44. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






45. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






46. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






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






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






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






50. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning

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