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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






2. Rational structure of Christian thought






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






4. 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






5. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






6. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






7. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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






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






10. 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






11. Father of History






12. Kant's general form of moral law






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






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






15. Two categories of axiology






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






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






18. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






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






20. What the medievals are criticized for






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






22. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






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






25. Socrates' ultimate goal






26. 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






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






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






29. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






30. Quintessential educated medieval person






31. 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






32. What medievals focused on






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






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






35. 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






36. Theoretical issues and practical issues






37. How was ancient Greece divided?






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






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






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






41. 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?'






42. General ideas about education and their logical implications






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






44. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






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






46. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it






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






48. Nature of any given thing






49. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






50. 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