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Philosophy in Education

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Perennialists believe that learning the _________ will lead to a successful adult life.

a)

basic

b)

current things

c)

modern ideas

2.

Perennialists are primarily concerned with the importance of _____________.

a)

interest of the students

b)

mastery of content

c)

comfortability of the pupils

3.

Perennialism focuses on the ________________.

a)

universal and unchanging truth

b)

group work activity in teaching

c)

flexibility of pupils

4.

Essentialist instill students with the _________.

a)

most essential knowledge

b)

less concepts

c)

freedom to learn in their own pace

5.

an approach essentialist implements

a)

Behaviorism

b)

Naturalism

c)

Back to basic

6.

It is the center of the curriculum for essentialist

a)

subject matter

b)

experimentation

c)

learners

7.

For progressivist, how do teachers know if the learners are learning? The learners will _________________

a)

ask questions

b)

finish the task

c)

answer yes or no

8.

The following are teaching examples in progressivism, except _____

a)

Cooperative Learning

b)

Group Activities

c)

Content Focused

9.

How are a progressivist teachers prepare a lesson?

a)

focused on content

b)

objective type

c)

provoke curiosity

10.

What is existentialism?

a)

a philosophy concerned with the meaning of life

b)

religion based on the pursuit of worldly pleasure

c)

a philosophy concerned with death

11.

What is the key idea in Existentialism?

a)

Existence precedes essence

b)

Everyone and everything has a specific purpose

c)

Life and existence have no meaning

12.

For Existentialists, Absurdity is _____________________ .

a)

The quality of being silly or preposterous

b)

the quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable.

c)

The search for answers in an answerless world

13.

You are absent from school for an afternoon. When you return, you read the report left by your substitute. The report states that half of your class behaved and did not finish their assignment. For the students who behaved, you give them free time on the computer. For the students who misbehaved, you give them an extra, more difficult assignment to accomplish. In this situation, you provided...

a)

Negative reinforcement and negative punishment

b)

Positive reinforcement and positive punishment

c)

Negative reinforcement and positive punishment

14.

Teacher Maria sees to it that her classroom is clean and orderly so her pupils will less likely disarrange seats and litter on the floor. On which thought is her action based?

a)

BEHAVIORISM

b)

EXISTENTIALISM

c)

PROGRESSIVISM

15.

Idealism is the metaphysical view that associates _________ in the mind rather than to material objects.

a)

reality to expectation

b)

reality to ideas

c)

reality to future

16.

aims to interpret the actualities

of any aspect of life, free from subjective

prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.

a)

Realism

b)

Real

c)

Romanticism

17.

The child learns best when performing some action along with the theoretical knowledge of a subject

a)

Integrated approach

b)

Collective approach

c)

Learning by doing approach

18.

Constructivism classroom is

a)

Teacher centered

b)

Students centered

c)

Questions centered

19.

The teacher is a midwife of ideas who helps the students bring to birth the ideas latent within their minds.

a)

Empiricism

b)

Rationalism

20.

 

The mind is like a rubber band that encompasses the information that it acquires from the world. Hence, the job of the teacher is to stretch the students’ mind so that they can accommodate ever larger amounts of data.

a)

Empiricism

b)

Rationalism