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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






2. 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






3. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






4. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






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






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






7. Father of History






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






9. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






10. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






11. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






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






13. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






14. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






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






16. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






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






18. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






20. Aspect which makes something tangible






21. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






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






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






24. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






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






26. Capability to change in certain ways






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






28. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






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






30. 'What is good?'






31. Stress self-expression






32. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






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






34. 3 traditional philosophies of education






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






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






37. 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






38. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






39. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






40. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?






41. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains






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






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






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






45. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






46. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects






47. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






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






49. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






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