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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What Greeks mostly focused on






2. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






3. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






4. Knowledge most worth having






5. 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






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






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






8. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






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






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






11. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






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






13. 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?'






14. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






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






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






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






18. Kant's general form of moral law






19. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






20. 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






21. Technology is not always a __________.






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






23. 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






24. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






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






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






27. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






29. 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






30. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






31. 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






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






33. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






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






35. 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






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






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






38. Aspect which makes something tangible






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






40. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






42. Capability to change in certain ways






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






44. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






45. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






46. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






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






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






49. What is a 'DWEM'?






50. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty