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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Children born from 1981-1999






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






3. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






4. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






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






6. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






7. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






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






9. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church






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






11. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






12. 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






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






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






15. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






16. 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






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






18. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue






19. Consisted of subjects






20. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






22. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






23. Music should be studied with a view to what?






24. 4 contemporary philosophies that have influenced education






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






26. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






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






28. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






29. 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






30. 'What is good?'






31. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






32. Theoretical issues and practical issues






33. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






34. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






35. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?






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






37. Experimentalist students are to be both:






38. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






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






40. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






41. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






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






43. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






44. Quintessential educated medieval person






45. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






46. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






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






48. Concept of the beautiful






49. Encourages individual choice






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