Chapter 9 Key Terms

4. the "love" of "wisdom"
7. deals with questions regarding knowledge and knowing
8. an educational approach that says humans learn to act in specific ways based on the response they receive for their actions
12. is inspired by the research of Piaget and Vygotsky, asserting that information must be internalized by integrating it into the learners' preexisting knowledge base
13. teachers present a general proposition and then illustrate it with a series of particulars
14. an American philosophy of education that began in the 1930s and 1940s in response to an overemphasis on a child-centered education and concern that students were not gaining adequate knowledge in schools

1. focuses on the nature of what we value and how we value it
2. views nature as being in flux, consequently, knowledge must continually be redefined and rediscovered
3. the attempt to explain the nature of the real world or the nature of existence
4. derived primarily from the writings of Plato, views truth and nature, human nature as constant, objective and unchanging
5. deals with reasoning
6. developed by William Heard Kilpatrick, in which students work in groups on a topic of interest to them
9. deals with questions of beauty
10. based on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings, also known as naturalism
11. teachers set forth particulars, from which a general proposition is derived