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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






3. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






4. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






5. World is permeated by divine essence






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






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






8. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






9. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






10. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






11. Portion of being






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






13. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






14. Use women more as slaves






15. 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






16. How was ancient Greece divided?






17. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






18. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






19. What Greeks mostly focused on






20. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






21. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'






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

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23. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






24. 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






25. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






26. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






27. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






28. 1600s; get to truth through science






29. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






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






31. Most famous multiculturalist project






32. What do Americans have the most of in education?






33. 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






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






35. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






36. 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






37. All knowledge is derived from the senses






38. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth






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






40. It is a dead language






41. Good and evil in constant battle






42. What is a 'DWEM'?






43. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






44. 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;






45. What do all 3 key elements of Greek culture involve?






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






47. Kant's general form of moral law






48. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






49. Stress self-expression






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