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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






2. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






3. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






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






5. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






6. What is a 'DWEM'?






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






8. Good and evil in constant battle






9. 'What is valuable?'






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






11. 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






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






13. How was ancient Greece divided?






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






15. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






16. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






17. Academic freedom does not mean _______






18. 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






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






20. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






21. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises






22. Aspect which makes something tangible






23. What was created to protect academic freedom?






24. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






25. 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






26. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






27. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






29. It is a dead language






30. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






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






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






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






34. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






35. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






36. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation






37. 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)






38. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






39. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






40. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






41. What medievals focused on






42. 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






43. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






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






45. 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






46. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






47. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






48. Philosophy is both...?






49. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






50. 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?'