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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)






3. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






4. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






5. What Greeks mostly focused on






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






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






22. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






24. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






25. List of works that have always been studied






26. What do Americans have the most of in education?






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






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






29. Core curriculum; not necessary for one to become liberally educated but can be a good basis






30. Portion of being






31. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






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






33. One that shapes the whole person






34. 1600s; get to truth through science






35. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






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






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






38. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important






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






40. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






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






42. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






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






44. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






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






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






47. Knowledge most worth having






48. Encourages individual choice






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






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