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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 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






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






3. Use women more as slaves






4. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






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






6. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






7. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






8. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






9. Quintessential educated medieval person






10. What the medievals are criticized for






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






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






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






14. 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






15. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






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






17. 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






18. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






19. 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






20. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






21. 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






22. One that shapes the whole person






23. 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






24. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)






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






26. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






27. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






28. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






29. It is a dead language






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






31. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






32. To teach men how to learn for themselves






33. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






34. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






35. Capability to change in certain ways






36. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical






37. 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






38. Knowledge most worth having






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






40. Children born from 1981-1999






41. 1600s; get to truth through science






42. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






43. General ideas about education and their logical implications






44. Music should be studied with a view to what?






45. Categories of philosophy as an activity






46. 'Man is the measure of all things'






47. 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






48. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






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






50. Application of ethical principles in particular instances