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DSST Foundations Of Education

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






2. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students






3. World is permeated by divine essence






4. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






5. How was ancient Greece divided?






6. To teach men how to learn for themselves






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Technology is not always a __________.






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






15. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






17. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted






18. 1600s; get to truth through science






19. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






20. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






22. Philosophy is both...?






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






24. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






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






26. Aspect which makes something tangible






27. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






28. Kant's general form of moral law






29. 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






30. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on






31. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text






32. General ideas about education and their logical implications






33. Consisted of subjects






34. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






35. Experience is reality; activity-based






36. A specific body of info every American should know






37. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






38. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






39. 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






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






41. Knowledge most worth having






42. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






49. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






50. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position