Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.1) Today's accountability climate greatly restricts the importance of teachers' formation of educational philosophies.
2) Given their advanced cognitive development, older children are the ones who primarily learn the implicit curriculum.
3) The implicit curriculum contains both negative and positive messages about life and about how students should behave.
4) The null curriculum includes messages that students learn because certain topics are unaddressed in schools.
5) The history of education in the United States has been marked by perpetual struggle with the question of the purpose of education.
6) Schooling is a subset of education.
7) A pervasive value of the macro-culture (dominant culture) in the United States is an emphasis on the good of the group over the good of the individual.
8) Given the tenets of philosophy, a good teacher must be a model of the good person.
9) The relationship between the school and society is one that was settled in U.S. society in the 1960's through the War on Poverty.
10) The influence of technology can be felt on all three curricula: explicit, implicit, and null.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
11) To Thomas Jefferson, education meant ______.
A)unity
B) prosperity
C) wisdom
D) freedom
12) Which of the following skill areas seems most likely to become part of the U.S. null curriculum?
A) two-place division
B) sewing
C) composition
D) literal comprehension
13) The ______ stance toward education leads students to think like specialists in the field, enjoying habits of mind and the structure of the discipline.
A) Personal
B) Rational
C) Social
D) Technical
14) The ______ stance toward education is most likely to suggest that formal schooling may be inappropriate for large numbers of citizens.
A) Personal
B) Rational
C) Technical
D) Social
15) The explicit curriculum is ______.
A) contestable in a court of law
B) comprised of the state standards
C) that which we purposely teach
D) all of the above
16) According to noted experts, schools are expected to solve problems that ______.
A) are impossible, given the vast variety of human diversity in the United States
B) are critical given our economic system
C) are far broader and deeper than their resources allow
D) are unique given our status as a wealthy nation
17) In today's accountability climate, which of the following is true about a well articulated stance toward education?
A) The climate’s educational mandates come to life only through the enactments of individual teachers.
B) The stance helps teachers communicate with others who have different priorities.
C) The stance helps set and view long term priorities.
D) all of the above
18) Which of the following is NOT an enduring question of educational philosophy suggested by the chapter?
A) Who should teach?
B) What should we teach?
C) What is the good society?
D) Which of our methods are effective?
19) In considering what everyone should learn, the chapter argues that it is important to remember that ______.
A) moral truths are basic
B) what is considered basic is time and place bound
C) reading and arithmetic are universal basics
D) there can be no subject matter that everyone should learn
20) Technology brings which of the following issues to the explicit curriculum ______.
A) accurate spelling
B) national standards for technology performance
C) vanishing subjects such as cursive penmanship
D) generally accepted ideas of what is polite and rude
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