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DSST Foundations Of Education

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?






6. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






7. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






8. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






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






10. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






11. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






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






13. 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?'






14. What Greeks mostly focused on






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






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






17. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers


18. The 'love of wisdom'






19. Experimentalist students are to be both:






20. Concept of the beautiful






21. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






22. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






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






25. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






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






27. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






28. What the medievals are criticized for






29. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






30. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






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






32. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






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






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






35. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing






36. 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






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






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






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






40. Aspect which makes something tangible






41. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






42. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






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






44. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






45. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






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






48. Nature of any given thing






49. World is an emanation of God's own being






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