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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






2. To teach men how to learn for themselves






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






4. 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






5. Philosophy is both...?






6. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






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






8. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






9. Quintessential educated medieval person






10. 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?'






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






12. 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






13. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






14. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






15. Socrates' ultimate goal






16. The 'love of wisdom'






17. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






18. Experience is reality; activity-based






19. Aristotle had a strict division between these two; he advocated a liberal education






20. All knowledge is derived from the senses






21. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci






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






23. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






24. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






25. What is the 4-step philosophical hierarchy?






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






27. Consisted of subjects






28. 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






29. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






30. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






31. 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






32. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






33. Theoretical issues and practical issues






34. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






35. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






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






37. Father of History






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






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






40. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






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






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






43. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






44. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






46. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






47. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind






48. 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






49. What is a 'DWEM'?






50. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems