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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Started naturalism






2. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






3. 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






4. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






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






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






7. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






8. 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






9. Academic freedom does not mean _______






10. What the medievals are criticized for






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






12. Learning is...






13. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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

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15. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






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






18. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






19. Rational structure of Christian thought






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






21. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






22. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






23. It is a dead language






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






25. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






26. Father of History






27. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






28. List of works that have always been studied






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






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






31. Stress self-expression






32. Capability to change in certain ways






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






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






35. 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






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






37. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






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






43. Encourages individual choice






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






45. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






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






47. 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






48. Nature of any given thing






49. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






50. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this