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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






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






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






4. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






5. What the medievals are criticized for






6. Started naturalism






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






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






9. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






11. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






12. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






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






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






15. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






16. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers






17. Children born from 1981-1999






18. Aspect which makes something tangible






19. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






20. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






21. Knowledge most worth having






22. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






23. 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






24. Two categories of axiology






25. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?






26. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






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






28. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






29. General ideas about education and their logical implications






30. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






31. 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






32. 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






33. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






34. 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






35. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise






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






37. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






38. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






39. 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






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






41. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






42. What was created to protect academic freedom?






43. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






44. 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






45. Concept of the beautiful






46. Theoretical issues and practical issues






47. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






49. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race






50. Father of History