PhiloEd

Question 1

Is the foundation of our human relationship to ourselves and the world around us

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

The belief that there are no absolute rules to determine whether actions are right or wrong.

Answer 2

Moral relativism:

Question 3

Increased interaction and integration worldwide made possible through trade and technology

Answer 3

Globalization

Question 4

When multiple groups share power within a society.

Answer 4

Pluralism

Question 5

Philosophizing that places less emphasis on the individual and more on the individual’s responsibilities to the larger group

Answer 5

Communitarian

Question 6

The absence of obstacles or barriers to the exercise of one’s freedom.

Answer 6

Negative liberty

Question 7

The presence of the skills and resources to the exercise of one’s freedom.

Answer 7

Positive liberty

Question 8

Rule by the people.

Answer 8

Democracy

Question 9

The study of what is right or wrong.

Answer 9

Ethics

Question 10

A system of government in which people vote for their leaders.

Answer 10

Democracy

Question 11

A set of beliefs about what is right or wrong.

Answer 11

Ethics

Question 12

Originally meaning “a person who lives in a town or city”

Answer 12

Citizen

Question 13

Obeys laws

Answer 13

Personally Responsible Citizen

Question 14

Knows strategies for accomplishing collective tasks

Answer 14

Participatory Citizen

Question 15

Critically assesses social, political, and economic structures to see beyond surface causes

Answer 15

Justice Oriented Citizen

Question 16

Seeks out and addresses areas of injustice

Answer 16

Justice Oriented Citizen

Question 17

Volunteers to lend a hand in times of crisis

Answer 17

Personally Responsible Citizen

Question 18

Organizes community efforts to care for those in need, promote economic development, or clean up environment.

Answer 18

Participatory Citizen

Question 19

Knows about social movements and how to effect systemic change

Answer 19

Justice Oriented Citizen

Question 20

Acts responsibly in his/her community, works, and pays taxes.

Answer 20

Personally Responsible Citizen

Question 21

Pays taxes and donates to the fund for the homeless shelter

Answer 21

Personally Responsible Citizen

Question 22

Raises funds for the homeless shelter

Answer 22

Participatory Citizen

Question 23

Tries to understand why so many people are homeless while so many houses are empty

Answer 23

Justice Oriented Citizen

Question 24

According to Westheimer and Kahne, most citizenship education programs only look at Personally Responsible Citizenship.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

J.S. Mill believed that the government plays an important role and should set the curriculum for schools.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

“[Government] leaders in a [totalitarian] regime would be as delighted as leaders in a [democracy] if their young citizens learned the lessons put forward by many of the [proponents] of personally responsible [citizenship]: don’t do drugs; show up to school; show up to work; give blood; help others during a flood; recycle; pick up litter; clean up a park; treat old people with respect.”

Answer 26

(Westheimer & Kahne, 2002, p. 244)

Question 27

The relationship between democracy and expertise is complex and contentious.

Answer 27

(Cairns & Sears)

Question 28

Plato and Socrates believed that governing should be left to the experts.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Cairns argues that expertise can be trusted because experts are educated to be objective and neutral.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Standardized testing distrusts the local knowledge of teachers parents, communities, and students in favour of the centralized knowledge of bureaucrats and other experts.

Answer 30

Cairns

Question 31

Who said, “the school that has no self-government should not be called a progressive school–it is a compromise school”?

Answer 31

A. S. Neill