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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






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






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






5. 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






6. Concept of the beautiful






7. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa






8. 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






9. 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?'






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






11. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






12. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






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






14. Aspect which makes something tangible






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






16. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






17. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






19. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






20. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education






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






22. Learning is...






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






24. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






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






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






27. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






33. 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






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






35. 3 traditional philosophies of education






36. A specific body of info every American should know






37. Consisted of subjects






38. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






39. What is the building block of civilization?






40. The 'love of wisdom'






41. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






42. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






43. 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






44. Children born from 1981-1999






45. 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






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






47. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






48. 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






49. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






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