MIDTERM EXAM

NAME (LAST NAME, FIRST NAME MI)

COURSE & YEAR

• BPED I-A
• BPED I-B

INSTRUCTOR

1. Which is NOT TRUE about social reconstructionists?

• A. Use of problem-solving
• B. Study of the Great Books
• C. Introduce a new society
• D. School as an agent of change

2. Which teaching practice goes with the “banking system” of education which was contrary to Paulo Freire’s educational thought?

• A. Rote Memorization
• B. Project-based learning
• C. Problem-based learning
• D. Community of inquiry

3. For which teaching will social reconstructionists be?

• A. Stress on isolationism
• B. Inequality and inequity as normal for an international society
• C. Building of an interdependent world that is international in scope
• D. Narrow concept of nationalism

4. “Schools are For the People and by the People” is one of the philosophies of ___________.

• A. John Dewey
• B. John Locke
• C. George Counts
• D. Herbert Spencer

5. For which educational practice was John Dewey?

• A. Problem-solving
• B. Banking Method
• C. Emphasis on Humanities
• D. Teaching of the Classics

6. Education is a function of society. What does this imply? I. Citizens are taught what society considered most important. II. Society determines curriculum to be taught III. Those in education taught what they believed should be taught regardless of society’s need.

• A. I only
• B. I and II
• C. II and III
• D. III only

7. If education is a function of society then it has to be ______________________.

• A. relevant
• B. complete
• C. for a selected few
• D. free