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DSST Foundations Of Education

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






2. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






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






4. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






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






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






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






8. Good and evil in constant battle






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






10. World is an emanation of God's own being






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






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






13. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race






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






15. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






16. World is permeated by divine essence






17. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






18. 3 traditional philosophies of education






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






20. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






21. 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






22. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






23. 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






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






25. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






26. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






27. Use women more as slaves






28. Consisted of subjects






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






30. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






31. 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;






32. 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






33. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






34. 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






35. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






36. Aspect which makes something tangible






37. Two categories of axiology






38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






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






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






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






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