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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






3. Learning is...






4. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems






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






6. Categories of philosophy as an activity






7. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing






8. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






9. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






10. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






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






12. Rational structure of Christian thought






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






14. 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






15. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






16. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






17. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving






18. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






19. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






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






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






22. Started naturalism






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Experimentalist students are to be both:






27. 1600s; get to truth through science






28. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






29. 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






30. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






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






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






33. Experience is reality; activity-based






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






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






36. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?






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






38. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty






39. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






40. 'What is good?'






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






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






43. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






44. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






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






46. 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






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






48. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






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






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

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