MCQ Bank
What is a major criticism of Bagley’s view on the teacher’s role?
- A) Teacher holds all power
- B) Teacher is too lenient
- C) Teacher promotes group work
- D) Teacher ignores textbooks
Who is founder of social reconstructionism?
- A) Jean Piaget
- B) Bloom Marlvin
- C) John Frankel
- D) Theodore Brameld
Which of the following philosophy emphasizes the addressing of social questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy?
- A) Idealism
- B) Naturalism
- C) Realism
- D) Reconstructionism
What did Bagley support to maintain high academic standards?
- A) Flexible content
- B) Creative focus
- C) Pass/fail system
- D) Free promotion
According to John Dewey, what role does vocation play in democratic education?
- A) Balances individual ability with social usefulness
- B) Encourages leisure over labor
- C) Focuses only on spiritual development
- D) Promotes aimlessness in learning
As a nations_______ is always a conquest, never a gift.
- A) Language
- B) Responsibility
- C) Discipline
- D) True freedom
Which one of the following conventional philosophy provide base to Progressivism educational philosophy?
- A) Reconstructionism
- B) Realism
- C) Idealism
- D) Pragmatism
The concrete operational stage of development covers the ages:
- A) 0 – 2 years
- B) 7 – 11 years
- C) 2 – 7 years
- D) 11 – 15 years
What was the main goal of Bagley’s strong core curriculum?
- A) Preserve culture
- B) Cut subjects
- C) Help teachers
- D) Boost activities
The role of the teacher in a perennialist classroom is as a
- A) Tutor
- B) Supervisor
- C) Guardian
- D) Counsellor
What is the main purpose of curriculum in the Social Reconstruction ideology?
- A) Promote social justice and change
- B) Focus on basic academic skills
- C) Prepare students for jobs
- D) Preserve cultural traditions
The latter freedom occurs when the child is initially subjected to ________.
- A) Slavery to master subjects
- B) Slavery to essential subjects
- C) Slavery to art subjects
- D) Slavery to science subjects
Karl Jaspers saw the possibility of the university playing a role in
- A) Reconstruction of Human Society
- B) Knowledge Creation
- C) Literacy Enhancing
- D) Books Publishing
According to which philosophy the aim of education is to ensure that students acquire understandings about the great ideas of Western civilization?
- A) Reconstructionism
- B) Pragmatism
- C) Perennialism
- D) Progressivism
Essentialism is criticized for promoting:
- A) Innovation
- B) Student freedom
- C) Status quo
- D) Cultural change
Which one of the following contemporary educational philosophy is really conservative and inflexible in nature?
- A) Progressivism
- B) Perennialism
- C) Reconstructionism
- D) Essentialism
Which of the following philosophy emphasisez content-centered approch?
- A) Perreneialism
- B) Progressivism
- C) Essentialism
- D) Reconstructivism
From which of the following philosophy the "back-to-basics" movement is most associated with?
- A) Perennialism
- B) Progressivism
- C) Essentialism
- D) Reconstructivism
Who only allows the very best to become a part of the university?
- A) Karl Jasper
- B) Aristotle
- C) Karl Marx
- D) Karl Joseph
Paulo Freire belongs to which of the following country?
- A) America
- B) Japan
- C) Italy
- D) Brazil