MCQ Bank
What do interactional theories primarily focus on?
- A) Developing curriculum
- B) Supporting old views
- C) Extending existing views
- D) Ignoring social class
Curricula for the 21st century should be technologically advanced, rational and encourage
- A) educational competence
- B) educational development
- C) social unity
- D) social disparity
Which education theory is reflected in a curriculum with a core background information intended to maintain cultural literacy?
- A) Essentialism
- B)
- C)
- D)
What was a key feature of the Madrasas established in cities like Samarkand and Bukhara after the Turks accepted Islam?
- A) Focused only on military training
- B) Excluded ancient philosophies
- C) Taught religion and social studies
- D) Lacked structure and organization
According to the philosophy pragmatist the curriculum should be:
- A) learner-centered
- B)
- C)
- D)
In Ancient China the goal of education was to prepare elites to
- A) build the nation
- B) govern the Empire
- C) serve the public
- D) promote military supremacy
A pragmatist approach to education would favor which of the following sets of concepts?
- A) change, experience, problem-solving
- B)
- C)
- D)
“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” This is the
- A) Social-Promotion Policy
- B) Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- C) Self-Propagated Prophecy
- D) Social-Pattern Propaganda
Of the traditional philosophies the one that would advocate the most learner-centered curriculum and instruction would most likely be:
- A) Pragmatism
- B)
- C)
- D)
The explosion of knowledge has led to the need for
- A) information classification
- B) information ignorance
- C) information fluency
- D) information overdose
Who is the Muslim scientist who explains the classification and principles of basic science?
- A) Al farabi
- B)
- C)
- D)
The curriculum should focus on
- A) preparing students for the hereafter
- B) both A and B
- C) the changing world of today
- D) neither A nor B
The idea of teaching the whole child in the "philosophy of program in education" means teaching students to be good
- A) citizens
- B)
- C)
- D)
According to Aristotle, what guides human conduct?
- A) Religious beliefs
- B) Social class and hierarchy
- C) Rational thinking and observation
- D) Emotions and desires
According to perennialism what kind of content should be included in school curriculum?
- A) Everlasting
- B)
- C)
- D)
Changes in the division of labor leads to a conflict model of unequal
- A) distribution of wealth
- B) learning potential
- C) struggle patterns
- D) power relations
Multiethnic approaches are stressed under
- A) Humanistic school
- B)
- C)
- D)
What should be the focus of education for all students?
- A) Child, activity, and experience-centered
- B) Teacher-centered instruction
- C) Curriculum-centered study
- D) Child-centered learning
The idea of teaching the whole child in the "philosophy of pragmatism in education" means teaching students to be good
- A) Citizens
- B)
- C)
- D)
Schools should be able to address the issues of
- A) social movements
- B) social inequalities
- C) social equities
- D) social adjustments