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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci






4. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






6. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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






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






14. 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






15. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






16. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia






17. It is a dead language






18. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






19. Concept of the beautiful






20. What the medievals are criticized for






21. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






22. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






23. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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






25. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






26. Father of History






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






28. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






29. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






30. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






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






32. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






33. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






34. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






35. World is an emanation of God's own being






36. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






37. Nature of any given thing






38. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation






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






40. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






41. Philosophy is both...?






42. Music should be studied with a view to what?






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






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






45. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






46. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






47. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






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






50. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?