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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






3. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






4. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth






5. No God






6. What Greeks mostly focused on






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






8. 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






9. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation






10. List of works that have always been studied






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






12. How was ancient Greece divided?






13. 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






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






15. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






16. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






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






18. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






19. To teach men how to learn for themselves






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






21. All knowledge is derived from the senses






22. 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






23. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






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






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






26. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste






27. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






28. Stress self-expression






29. A specific body of info every American should know






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






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






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






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






34. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this






41. What medievals focused on






42. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






43. The 'love of wisdom'






44. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






45. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






46. 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;






47. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






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






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






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