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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






7. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






8. List of works that have always been studied






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






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






11. How was ancient Greece divided?






12. Nature of any given thing






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






14. Technology is not always a __________.






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






16. 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






17. Consisted of subjects






18. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






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






20. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






21. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






22. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste






23. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






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






25. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






26. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






27. What Greeks mostly focused on






28. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions






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






30. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa






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






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






33. 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






34. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






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






36. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






38. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as






39. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty






40. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






41. What is the building block of civilization?






42. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






44. 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






45. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race






46. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






48. 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






49. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






50. A harmful type of multiculturalism?