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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






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






3. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






4. 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






5. Quintessential educated medieval person






6. 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






7. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






8. Concept of the beautiful






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






10. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






11. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






12. 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






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






14. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






15. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances






16. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






17. Technology is not always a __________.






18. 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






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






20. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






21. Two categories of axiology






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






23. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






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






25. One that shapes the whole person






26. 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






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






28. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






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






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






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






32. List of works that have always been studied






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






34. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






35. What is a 'DWEM'?






36. 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






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






38. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger






39. Nature of any given thing






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






41. Experimentalist students are to be both:






42. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






43. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






44. Encourages individual choice






45. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






46. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'






47. Theoretical issues and practical issues






48. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






49. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.






50. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises