EDU:01 Knowledge and curriculum : philosophical and sociological perspectives MCQ

1. What is the origin of the word Education ?
a. 'E ' and 'catum' b. 'Edu' and 'catum'
c.  Word Educate    d. None of these.
Ans: a
2. What is called education acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period and place?
a. Indirect Education
b. Individual Education
C. Informal Education
d. Formal Education
Ans: c
3. What are the three components of the educational process?
a. Education, teacher and books
b. Teacher, student and education
c. Teaching,learning and practice
d. Direction, instruction and skill
Ans:b
4. What is teaching through deductive method?
a. From general to specific
b. From specific to general
c. From macro to micro
d. From easy to difficult
Ans: a
5. Which is the first school for a child's education?
a. Society            b. Friends
c. Family             d. School
Ans: c
6. Who was the supporter of Naturalism in Education?
a. Frobel              b. Armstrong
c. John locke        d. Rousseau
Ans:d
7. What is the main center of informal Education?
a. Society           
b. Family
c. Radio and television
d. All of the above
Ans:d
8. Who raised the slogan "back to nature"?
a. Realism            b. Pragmatism
c. Naturalism      d. Humanism
Ans: c
9. Religious education is strongly advocated by
a. Pragmatists   b. Idealists
c. Realist            d. Existentialists
Ans: b
10. Which school of philosophy of education advocated project method of teaching?
a. Realism            b. Pragmatism
c. Idealism           d. Naturalism
Ans: b
11. Play way method of teaching has been emphasised in the scheme of the education of
a. Naturalists    b. Realists
b. Pragmatists  d. Existentialists
Ans: a
12. Who emphasized that education should be a social process?
a. Viveakandha   b. Rousseau
c. Dewey             d. Pestalozzi
Ans: c
13. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of
a. Education      b.  Learning
c. Knowledge     d. Philosophy of education
Ans : c
14. What was the relation between Plato and Aristotle?
a. Plato was student of Aristotle
b. Aristotle was student of Plato
c. Plato and Aristotle were brothers
d. Plato and Aristotle were colleagues
Ans: b
15. According to famous philosophers teaching is a/an
a. Art                b. Arts
c. Science         d. Technique
Ans: a
16. Education is the creation of a sound body is the saying of?
a. Plato            b. Comens
c. Aristotle     d. Dewey
Ans: c
17. Which one is not the source of formal education?
a. School           b. Museum
c. Library         d. Home
Ans : d
18. The literal meaning of philosophy is?
a. Love of knowledge
b. Love of truth
c. Love of values
d. Love of wisdom
Ans: d
19. Eclecticism means borrowing beliefs from?
a. One philosophy
b. Two philosophy
c. Three philosophy
d. Different philosophy
Ans : d
20. Who said "No fixed aims of education and no values in advance "?
a. Progressive educators
b. Idealists
c. Realists
d. Marxists
Ans: a