Pedagogy MCQS for SST TGT FGEI (Free PDF)

Q. According to which educational philosophy, socially useful labour must form the central pivot of the entire school?

A. Idealism

B. Marxism

C. Existentialism

D. Naturalism.

Correct answer is: B. Marxism

Q. Which of the following has been asserted about schools by Marxist educational philosophy?

A. They should stand above politics

B. They should disinterestedly serve society as a whole

C. They should function as deliberate instruments of state policy

D. They should not be mere weapons in the hands of the ruling class.

Correct answer is: C. They should function as deliberate instruments of state policy

Q. Which of the following characteristics is common to Pragmatism, Naturalism and Existentialism?

A. Emphasis on spiritual aims of education

B. Emphasis on the individual

C. Emphasis on physical environment

D. Emphasis on value education.

Correct answer is: B. Emphasis on the individual

Q. Which school believes that all knowledge comes through the senses?

A. Idealism

B. Sense Realism

C. Pragmatism

D. Existentialism.

Correct answer is: B. Sense Realism

Q. Whose is the ultimate concern-“What is existence”?

A. Idealists only

B. Realists only

C. Existentialists and Idealists both

D. Existentialists only.

Correct answer is: C. Existentialists and Idealists both

Q. Which school raised the slogan “Things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather than words?”

A. Pragmatist

B. Realists

C. Idealists

D. Existentialists.

Correct answer is: B. Realists

79. Which of the following philosophies held that ‘Men in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure of their meaning and fearful of their annihilation’ ?

A. Existentialism

B. Idealism

C. Marxism

D. Pragmatism.

Correct answer is: A. Existentialism

Q. As Huxley pleaded for the introduction of “a complete and thorough scientific culture” into schools, he is claimed to be

A. An Idealist.

B. A Realist,

C. A Pragmatist.

D. A Naturalist.

Correct answer is: B. A Realist,

Q. According to Existentialists, the essence of existence means

A. Unity with the ultimate reality.

B. Spiritual good and happiness.

C. Tensions and contradictions which condition loneliness and anxiety.

D. Continuous growth and development.

Correct answer is: A. Unity with the ultimate reality.

Q. Realism in education was born out of

A. The enthusiasm of the Renaissance.

B. The great religious movement of the 17th century.

C. A cleavage between the work of the schools and the life of the world outside that occurred during the 19th century.

D. The degeneration of humanism after Renaissance.

Correct answer is: C. A cleavage between the work of the schools and the life of the world outside that occurred during the 19th century.

Q. Who was the nineteenth century founder of Existentialism?

A. Hegel

B. Soren Kierkegaard

C. Rousseau

D. D.J. O’Connor.

Correct answer is: B. Soren Kierkegaard

Q. Which of the following is not criticised by realism in education?

A. Teachers denying the value of school co-curricular activities

B. Pupils cramming for knowledge from books for reproducing in examination

C. Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to practical training in citizenship

D. Teaching which drifts away from life of the child.

Correct answer is: C. Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to practical training in citizenship

Q. In the light of relevant past events, contemporary events and their understanding should find a place in the teaching of history. Who maintained this principle?

A. Naturalists

B. Idealists

C. Realists

D. Marxists.

Correct answer is: C. Realists

Q. The most important thing to keep in mind for a teacher according to Realism in education is

(a) The method of teaching.
(b) The value and significance of what is taught.
(c) The nature of the child.
(d) Organization of the content to be taught.

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Q. Which school of philosophy very strongly advocates that education should be vocational in character?

A. Existentialism

B. Naturalism

C. Realism

D. Pragmatism.

Correct answer is: C. Realism

Q. Which is not an aspect of mind according to the Realists’ theory of knowing?

A. Awareness

B. Consciousness

C. Behaviour

D. Processing of awareness.

Correct answer is: C. Behaviour

Q. Who believe that “Objects have a reality independent of mental phenomena”?

A. Idealists

B. Realists

C. Naturalists

D. Existentialists.

Correct answer is: B. Realists

Q. Who emphasised realization of Truth, Beauty and Goodness as the aims of education?

A. Idealists

B. Pragmatists

C. Realists

D. Naturalists.

Correct answer is: A. Idealists

Q. Which statement about truth is not correct according to the philosophy of Pragmatism?

A. It is made by man

B. It is ever changing

C. It is eternal

D. It is what emerges to be true in actual practice.

Correct answer is: C. It is eternal

Q. Which school of philosophy of education advocated Project method of teaching?

A. Realism

B. Pragmatism

C. Idealism

D. Naturalism.

Correct answer is: B. Pragmatism

Q. In whose methodology of teaching “Experimentation” is the key-note of?

A. Idealism

B. Existentialism

C. Realism

D. Pragmatism.

Correct answer is: D. Pragmatism.

Q. Play way method of teaching has been emphasised in the scheme of the education of

A. Naturalists.

B. Realists,

C. Pragmatists.

D. Existentialists.

Correct answer is: A. Naturalists.

Q The term “progressive education” related to

A. Realism.

B. Pragmatism.

C. Idealism.

D. Existentialism.

Correct answer is: B. Pragmatism.

Q. Which is the most widely accepted method of education, according to the pragmatists?

A. Lecturing by the teacher.

B. Leaving the child free to learn.

C. Learning by doing.

D. Heuristic method.

Correct answer is: C. Learning by doing.

Q. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no values in advance”?

A. Progressive educators

B. Idealists

C. Realists

D. Marxists.

Correct answer is: A. Progressive educators