Quiz Study Material EDUC 703 - Practice-Ready Answer Guide

Quiz Study Material EDUC 703 - Practice-Ready Answer Guide agnosticism - answer - (philosophical term) the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist." deism - answer - (philosophical term) belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind. dialectic - answer - (philosophical term) the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions. dichotomy - answer - (philosophical term) a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different. eclecticism - answer - (philosophical term) the theories or methods of the ancient Eclectic philosophers, who did not belong to or found any recognized school of thought but selected doctrines from various schools of thought. epistemology - answer - (philosophical term) the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. Questions relating to the nature of truth and how it is acquired. faith - answer - (philosophical term) complete trust or confidence in someone or something. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. logocentrism - answer - (philosophical term) a term coined by the German philosopher Ludwig Klages in the early 1900s. It refers to the tradition of Western science and philosophy that regards words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality. Knowledge deriving from written or spoken words rather than from images materialism - answer - (philosophical term) the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. ontology - answer - (philosophical term) the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. pantheism - answer - (philosophical term) Pantheism is the belief that reality is identical with divinity, or that all-things compose an all-encompassing, immanent god. reason - answer - (philosophical term) in philosophy, the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. ... Reason is in opposition to sensation, perception, feeling, desire, as the faculty (the existence of which is denied by empiricists) by which fundamental truths are intuitively apprehended. teleology - answer - (philosophical term) the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise. Teleology or finality is a reason or explanation for something as a function of its end, purpose, or goal, as opposed to as a function of, say, its cause. A purpose that is imposed by a human use, such as that of a fork, is called extrinsic. behaviorism - answer - (more of a method than a theory; leans toward transmission). B.F. Skinner's behavior modification. We usually pair this as a tool to use with "essentialism" critical pedagogy - answer - (theory that leans more toward transformation) Paulo Freire, a social activist, educator, and philosopher. Freire contributed a philosophy of education which blended classical approaches stemming from Plato and modern Marxist, post-Marxist, and anti-colonialist thinkers. His Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) can be read as an extensi