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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Concept of the beautiful






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






8. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church






9. Quintessential educated medieval person






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






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






12. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa






13. 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






14. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important






15. 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






16. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances






17. 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






18. It is a dead language






19. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






20. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue






21. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






23. 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






24. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






26. A specific body of info every American should know






27. 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






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






29. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






30. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






31. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






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






33. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






34. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






35. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






36. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






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






38. 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






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






40. What the medievals are criticized for






41. 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






42. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






43. Stress self-expression






44. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?






45. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






47. 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






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. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






50. Capability to change in certain ways