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Question 1:

________ is important to education because the disciplines, experiences, and skills in the curriculum reflect what our society has determined to be real.
a) Metaphysics
b) Epistemology
c) Axiology
d) Deontology

Question 2:

From an epistemological perspective, education aspires to give students the tools for discerning the justification for their beliefs.
a) True
b) False

Question 3:

Axiology is the branch of philosophy concerned with ________.
a) knowledge and truth
b) what is real
c) beauty and ethics
d) causation

Question 4:

Realists argue that the classics in literature, art, and music are transhistorical sources of universal truths and should form the core of the curriculum.
a) True
b) False

Question 5:

For realists, education helps learners develop ________.
a) knowledge of enduring truths
b) perfect ideas
c) personal meaning
d) abstract concepts

Question 6:

Pragmatism is a uniquely American philosophy developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

According to ________, ideas are universal and unchanging.
a) essentialism
b) social reconstructionism
c) perennialism
d) progressivism

Question 8:

Assertive discipline is an approach to classroom management that aligns closely with essentialism.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

________ is a current iteration of progressivism practised in many Canadian schools.
a) Assertive discipline
b) Inquiry-based learning
c) The industrial model of education
d) The banking model of education

Question 10:

Conservatism is a philosophy of education that maintains that teachers and schools ought to be change agents in creating a new and more equitable social order.
a) True
b) False

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Educational Foundations in Canada: Chapter 06