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DSST Foundations Of Education

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Experience is reality; activity-based






2. 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






3. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






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






5. 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






6. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical






7. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






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






9. How was ancient Greece divided?






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers






15. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted






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






17. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. Capability to change in certain ways






22. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






23. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught






24. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






25. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






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






27. Academic freedom does not mean _______






28. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






30. General ideas about education and their logical implications






31. 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






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






33. It is a dead language






34. Kant's general form of moral law






35. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






42. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






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






44. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






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






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






48. Technology is not always a __________.






49. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






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