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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Children born from 1981-1999






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






3. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






4. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






5. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






6. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it






7. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






9. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






10. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






11. Consisted of subjects






12. Learning is...






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






14. 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?'






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

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






17. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






18. 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






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






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






21. Encourages individual choice






22. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted






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






24. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






25. One that shapes the whole person






26. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






27. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






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






29. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






30. Experimentalist students are to be both:






31. World is permeated by divine essence






32. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






33. 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






34. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






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






36. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






37. 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;






38. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






39. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






40. Experience is reality; activity-based






41. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






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






43. Capability to change in certain ways






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






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






46. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity






47. Technology is not always a __________.






48. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






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






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







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