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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What Greeks mostly focused on






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






3. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






4. Nature of any given thing






5. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






7. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






8. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






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






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






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






12. World is permeated by divine essence






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






14. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?






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






16. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






17. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language






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






19. Father of History






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






21. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






22. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






23. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






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






25. Experience is reality; activity-based






26. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






27. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being






28. Two categories of axiology






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






30. 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






31. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






32. Theoretical issues and practical issues






33. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






34. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






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

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36. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






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






38. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






39. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






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






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






42. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






43. Children born from 1981-1999






44. Academic freedom does not mean _______






45. What the medievals are criticized for






46. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






47. 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






48. Music should be studied with a view to what?






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






50. What was created to protect academic freedom?






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