Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives in Education

Which perspective is the creation of E. Durkheim?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Symbolic Interactionalism

Karl Marx proposed that society would be better if all classes would rise up and fight until there was only one class of people. This is ____theory.

• Conflict
• Functionalist
• Structuralist
• Interactionist

The _____perspective focuses on how individuals act with one another in daily situations. 

• Functionalist
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionist
• Structuralist

Which theory says that society is a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain balance?

• Functionalist Theory

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Consensus Theory

Which theory views society as composed of different groups and interests competing for power and resources?

• Functionalism

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Consensus Theory

His work on the self is most represented by the concept “Tabula Rasa” which means a Blank Slate.

• LOCK

• HUME

• ST. AUGUSTINE

• DESCARTES

Existentialism represents a break with idealism and realism in which its suggestion that

• The sources for ultimate truth are both eternal and relative

• Definitions of concepts such as truth and value are ultimately personal and subjective

• It is absolutely impossible to define a word truth either objectively or subjectively

• To focus our philosophical attention on ourselves to deny the very meaning of universe

Which is NOT TRUE of Social reconstructionists

• Use of Problem Solving

• Study of the Great Books

• School as an Agentof Change

• Introduce a new society

For which educational practice was John Dewey?

• Problem-solving

• Banking Method

• Emphasis on Humanities

• Teaching of the Classics

"Education is not acquisition of knowledge contained in the Classics. It is learners interacting with concrete experience. The learner is an active not a passive agent of his/her own learning". The is a description of?

• Utilitarianist

• Empiricist

• Reconstructionist

• Critical Pedagogy