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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What is the building block of civilization?






2. Nature of any given thing






3. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






4. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






5. 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






6. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






7. All knowledge is derived from the senses






8. What is a 'DWEM'?






9. Stress self-expression






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






11. 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






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






13. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






14. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






15. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






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






18. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






19. 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






20. Knowledge most worth having






21. 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






22. 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






23. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






24. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






25. 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






26. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






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






28. 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






29. The 'love of wisdom'






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






31. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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






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






34. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.






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






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






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






38. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






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






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






41. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






42. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






43. 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






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






45. Experimentalist students are to be both:






46. 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






47. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against






48. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






49. Started naturalism






50. 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