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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Learning is...






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






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






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






6. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






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






8. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






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






10. All knowledge is derived from the senses






11. Theoretical issues and practical issues






12. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






13. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






14. Good and evil in constant battle






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






16. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






18. 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






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






20. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






21. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






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






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






29. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






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






31. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






32. Stress self-expression






33. Technology is not always a __________.






34. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






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






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






37. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






38. 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






39. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






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






41. 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






42. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






43. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






44. 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






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






46. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world






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






48. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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






50. 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