Modern Philosophies and Education

What were the two types of modern philosophy we covered?

• Pragmatism and Existentialism
• Realism and Idealism
• Nihilism and Pragmatism
• Jediism and atomism

True or False: Pragmatism believes in metaphysics.

• True
• False

All of these are pragmatist steps to reflective thinking EXCEPT:

• The person faces a problem that stops their progress. The person starts to think about how to solve the problem. 
• The person comes up with possible solutions to the problem. 
• The individual puts emotional responses aside and breaks down the nature of the problem.
• The person asks the opinion of a peer about how to solve the problem

True or False: Pragmatists want the teacher to be more of an instructor than a companion to their students.  

• True 
• False

The best definition of Existentialism includes all of these EXCEPT:

• The refusal to belong to any school of thought
• the repudiation of the adequacy of philosophic systems and bodies of belief
• The belief that everything is meaningless
• A marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life

Existentialists believe that truth is a ________

• Choice
• Universal law
• way of life
• un-changing fact

True or False: To Existentialists the consequences to a person's action are not the most important thing, it is more important that the person is taking action. 

• True
• False

Existentialists want the role of the teacher to be similar to a:

• superior overseer
• facilitator 
• mentor
• slave driver

True or False: Both Pragmatists and Existentialists are happy with the current education system. 

• True
• False

Both Pragmatists and Existentialists believe that ___________of education

• students
• test scores
• school funding
• state-approved curriculum