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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






2. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






7. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers


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






9. 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






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






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






12. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






13. Categories of philosophy as an activity






14. Philosophy is both...?






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






16. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






17. List of works that have always been studied






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






19. What Greeks mostly focused on






20. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






21. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






22. Use women more as slaves






23. What is a 'DWEM'?






24. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






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






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






27. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






28. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






29. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30






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






31. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






32. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






33. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






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






35. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?






36. Socrates' ultimate goal






37. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind






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






39. 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






40. 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)






41. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






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






43. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider






44. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation






45. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






46. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






47. What is the building block of civilization?






48. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






49. Capability to change in certain ways






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