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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Strongly intellectual; pure cognitive activity; teacher is a model for students






3. Martin Luther; John Calvin






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






8. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider






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






10. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






11. 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






12. What the medievals are criticized for






13. Consisted of subjects






14. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






15. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






16. Two categories of axiology






17. Experimentalist students are to be both:






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






24. What medievals focused on






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. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






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






28. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






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






30. 3 traditional philosophies of education






31. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






32. No God






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






34. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






35. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






36. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






37. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






38. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






39. 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






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






41. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






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






43. 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






44. Father of History






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






46. Academic freedom does not mean _______






47. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






48. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible






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






50. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable