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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






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






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






4. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






5. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;






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






7. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis






8. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






15. What the medievals are criticized for






16. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects






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






18. 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






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






20. The 'love of wisdom'






21. 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






22. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






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






24. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






26. Two categories of axiology






27. All knowledge is derived from the senses






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






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






30. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






31. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






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






33. Philosophy is both...?






34. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






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






36. Academic freedom does not mean _______






37. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






38. Experience is reality; activity-based






39. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






40. 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






41. Theoretical issues and practical issues






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






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






44. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






46. 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






47. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






48. What is the building block of civilization?






49. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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