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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






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. 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






5. Two categories of axiology






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






7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






8. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






9. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






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






11. No God






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






13. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving






14. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






16. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






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






18. 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






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






20. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






21. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible






22. Experience is reality; activity-based






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






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






25. Capability to change in certain ways






26. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






27. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






28. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






29. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






30. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






31. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci






32. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?






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

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34. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






36. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems






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






38. 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;






39. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






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. Most famous multiculturalist project






42. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






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






44. What is a 'DWEM'?






45. 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






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






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






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






49. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






50. 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