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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






2. Use women more as slaves






3. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






4. Stress self-expression






5. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






6. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education






7. 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






8. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






9. It is a dead language






10. 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






11. 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;






12. 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






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






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






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






16. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






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






18. 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






19. Martin Luther; John Calvin






20. 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






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






22. 'Man is the measure of all things'






23. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






24. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






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






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






27. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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






29. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






30. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






31. Father of History






32. Categories of philosophy as an activity






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






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






35. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






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






37. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity






38. 3 traditional philosophies of education






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






40. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






41. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






42. 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






43. Two categories of axiology






44. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






45. Two main philosophers of idealism






46. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






47. Most famous multiculturalist project






48. 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






49. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






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






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