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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30






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






4. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






5. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






7. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






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






9. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment






10. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






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






12. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






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






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






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






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






18. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






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






20. Kant's general form of moral law






21. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






22. Concept of the beautiful






23. A specific body of info every American should know






24. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






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






26. What Greeks mostly focused on






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






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






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






30. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






31. Consisted of subjects






32. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






33. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






34. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical






35. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






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






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






38. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






39. 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






40. 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






41. Knowledge most worth having






42. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






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






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






46. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






47. Technology is not always a __________.






48. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






49. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






50. Learning is...