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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






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






3. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






4. Capability to change in certain ways






5. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise






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






7. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






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






10. 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






11. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue






12. Categories of philosophy as an activity






13. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






14. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






15. Nature of any given thing






16. What is the building block of civilization?






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






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






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






20. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being






21. 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






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






23. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






24. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






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






26. Quintessential educated medieval person






27. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






28. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?






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






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






32. Good and evil in constant battle






33. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






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






35. 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






36. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






37. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






38. Children born from 1981-1999






39. Aspect which makes something tangible






40. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






41. 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






42. All knowledge is derived from the senses






43. 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;






44. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






45. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






46. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools






47. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






49. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






50. Kant's general form of moral law