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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. One that shapes the whole person






2. Theoretical issues and practical issues






3. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste






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






5. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






6. 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






7. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






8. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






9. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






10. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






11. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






13. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






14. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






15. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






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






17. 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;






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. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






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






21. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






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






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. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






25. Two categories of axiology






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Nature of any given thing






33. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






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






35. 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






36. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it






37. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia






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






39. 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






40. Most famous multiculturalist project






41. Learning is...






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






43. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers

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






45. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






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






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






48. Children born from 1981-1999






49. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






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







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