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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What medievals focused on






2. Encourages individual choice






3. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






4. Experience is reality; activity-based






5. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






6. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






7. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






8. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it






9. Children born from 1981-1999






10. 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






11. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






12. Capability to change in certain ways






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






14. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






15. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






16. 'What is valuable?'






17. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as






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






19. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






20. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






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






22. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






23. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






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






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






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






27. It is a dead language






28. What Greeks mostly focused on






29. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






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






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






32. Technology is not always a __________.






33. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






34. What the medievals are criticized for






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






36. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






37. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






38. 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






39. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






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






42. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






43. Concept of the beautiful






44. 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






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






46. Use women more as slaves






47. 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






48. Categories of philosophy as an activity






49. 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






50. 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