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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






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






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






4. It is a dead language






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






9. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






10. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






11. 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






12. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity






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






14. 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






15. To teach men how to learn for themselves






16. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






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






18. 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






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






20. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






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






22. Kant's general form of moral law






23. Philosophy is both...?






24. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






25. Capability to change in certain ways






26. Technology is not always a __________.






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language






32. Socrates' ultimate goal






33. The 'love of wisdom'






34. A specific body of info every American should know






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






36. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






37. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






38. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






39. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






40. Children born from 1981-1999






41. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught






42. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






43. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






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






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






46. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






47. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






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






49. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;






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