PhiloEd

Question 1

Critical thinking ….

Answer 1

1…. is skillful
2…. results in judgements
3…. relies on criteria
4…. is imbued with a critical spirit
5…. displays sensitivity to context
6…. requires cognitive accountability
7…. is self-corrective
8…. is reflective

Question 2

If you said that you didn’t think teachers should give grades and I said “Oh, so, you think students shouldn’t have to get any feedback? That’s a horrible idea!” then I would be committing this fallacy.

Answer 2

→ straw man fallacy

Question 3

If someone said that “schools must have uniforms because if they don’t, students could wear anything they wanted, and if students can wear anything they wanted, then they could wear obscene or hateful t-shirts” they would be ignoring that there are other ways to stop some of these things from happening. They would be making this kind of argumentative fallacy.

Answer 3

→ slippery slope

Question 4

A person commits this fallacy when they introduce information or claims that distract from the point of the argument and don’t contribute to it at all.

Answer 4

→ red herring

Question 5

If person A said “I believe X” and person B said, “Yeah, well, you’re an idiot, so X isn’t true” they would be committing this kind of argumentative fallacy.

Answer 5

→ ad hominem

Question 6

Everyone who has eaten a tomato dies eventually, therefore tomatoes are poisonous.” This could be an example of which kind of argumentative fallacy?

Answer 6

False cause

Question 7

• A: Jane’s very honest.
• B: How do you know?
• A: She told me.

Answer 7

Begging the question

Question 8

Rousseau’s attitude towards nature and its role in education:

Answer 8

Nature is the best teacher and educators should work with and respect the natural development.

Question 9

Dewey, according to Noddings, believed that all children should have the exact same education up until around grade 12.

Answer 9

→False

Question 10

BLANK believed that each student should be educated based on his or her abilities by placing them into one of three classes.

Answer 10

[Plato/Socrates]

Question 11

BLANK believed that each student should be educated based on his or her abilities, which would be different for every child.

Answer 11

[Dewey]

Question 12

BLANK believed that the mother and the father both have important but different roles to play in raising children and one of the most important responsibilities of women is to please men. He believed that men and women should be educated differently.

Answer 12

[Rousseau]

Question 13

BLANK believed that the ruling class should not have individual families but share spouses in communal marriages and raise the resulting children communally as well. He believed that men and women should be educated in the same way.

Answer 13

[Plato/Socrates]

Question 14

Aristotle believed that the community should not make demands upon individuals who should be free to develop without interference.

Answer 14

→False

Question 15

Students are often put into groups but end up doing individual work in these groups.

Answer 15

→ True

Question 16

Empirical research tells us that segregating children by ability, gender, disability, or ethnicity yields benefits.

Answer 16

→ False

Question 17

When we pay too much attention to the results of tests of student achievement, such as those governments around the world have adopted, teachers end up teaching the things that can be tested, the most easily measured outcomes.

Answer 17

→ True

Question 18

Skinner, Pavlov, Vygotsky, and Piaget all were members of the behavioural school of psychology.

Answer 18

→ False

Question 19

Purposeful

Answer 19

→ Pragmatic

Question 20

An understanding of learning as involving a learner integrating new knowledge with existing knowledge through experimentation, inquiry, and interaction.

Answer 20

→ Constructivist,

Question 21

“A brand of economics that put markets and individual choice at the core of economic success”

Answer 21

→ Neoliberalism,

Question 22

NCLB

Answer 22

→ An American law.

Question 23

A school of psychology that saw learning as largely habit formation often through repetition.

Answer 23

→ Behaviourism

Question 24

A system that allows parents to put their children in private education with the financial support of the government.

Answer 24

→ vouchers