Pedagogy MCQS

Q. Which among the following is the most correct view about social and individual aims of education?

A. Individual aims should be given preference to social aims
B. Social aims should be preferred to individual aims
C. Individual aims are implied in the social aims of education
D. Individual and social aims are only two sides of the same coin.
Correct answer is: D. Individual and social aims are only two sides of the same coin.

Q. Which statement is most acceptable to the academicians about “Bread and butter aim” of education?

A. It is the most important aim and should be given top priority by educationists
B. It is equally important along with other aims of education
C. It is only partly acceptable
D. It is important for only a section of the society.
Correct answer is: C. It is only partly acceptable

Q. Which school of philosophy of education regrets dualism between cultural, and voca­tional curriculum?

A. Marxism
B. Idealism
C. Existentialism
D. Naturalism.
Correct answer is: A. Marxism

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
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