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DSST Foundations Of Education

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






2. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






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






4. 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






5. To teach men how to learn for themselves






6. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






7. 'What is good?'






8. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






9. General ideas about education and their logical implications






10. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






11. 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






12. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






13. 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)






14. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






15. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






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






17. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






18. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






19. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






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






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






22. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






23. 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






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






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






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






27. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






29. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






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






31. The 'love of wisdom'






32. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






34. Started naturalism






35. Technology is not always a __________.






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






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






38. Kant's general form of moral law






39. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






40. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






42. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






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






44. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'






45. What was created to protect academic freedom?






46. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






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






48. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






49. World is permeated by divine essence






50. 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