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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






2. 1600s; get to truth through science






3. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






4. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






6. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






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






8. What Greeks mostly focused on






9. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






10. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






11. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






19. Children born from 1981-1999






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






21. Use women more as slaves






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






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






24. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






25. A specific body of info every American should know






26. It is a dead language






27. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






28. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






29. 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






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






31. Kant's general form of moral law






32. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning

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






34. Learning is...






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






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






37. Experience is reality; activity-based






38. 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






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






40. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






41. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






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






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






44. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






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






46. Stress self-expression






47. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






48. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






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






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