1301 Quiz 1

One example of a metaphysical question is _______. 

• How do we know?
• What values are worthy of possession?
• What is reality?
• What is value?

Epistemological questions focus on _______. 

• reality 
• values 
• courage to do the right thing 
• knowledge

Axiology highlights the fact that teachers have an interest not only in how much students learn, but also in the _______. 

• origin of student learning
• depth of student understanding 
• quality of life that comes from knowledge 
• nature of reality

Logic is the area of philosophy that deals with _______.

• questions of ultimate existence
• the process of reasoning
• matters related to final knowledge
• issues of the origin of values   

Perennialism views truth as _______.

• relativisitic
• in a state of constant change
• beyond human comprehension
• constant

A perennialistic curriculum should stress _______. 

• students' intellectual growth in the arts
• students' appreciation of issues of being
• existentialistic values
• worldwide social change

Essentialism is most accurately characterized as a _______ philosophy of educationessiver. 

• conservative
• progressive
• liberal
• permissive

Property taxes are the best way to fund education.

• True
• False

An essentialistic curriculum would most likely emphasize _______.

• new thinking
• contemporary social issues
• basic skills
• the project method

In the progressively oriented classroom, the teacher serves as _______.

• the active provider of information to an essentially passive audience
•  a guide whose primary responsibility is to facilitate student learning 
• an instructor charged with explaining the great axioms of the human experience
• a facilitator to help students discover meaning in existence