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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






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






3. Experience is reality; activity-based






4. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






5. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






6. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools






7. Good and evil in constant battle






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






9. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






11. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






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






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






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






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






16. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






17. Knowledge most worth having






18. 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






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






20. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






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






22. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






23. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






24. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






25. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






26. 'What is good?'






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






34. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






35. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






36. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation






37. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






38. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. General ideas about education and their logical implications






43. Most famous multiculturalist project






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






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






46. List of works that have always been studied






47. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)






48. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






49. 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






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