Philosophy of Education

1. In Plato's Meno, Socrates dialogues with Meno in an effort to reach a universal definition of this.
(a) Knowledge
(b) Truth
(c) Justice
(d) Virtue

2. Which of the following is NOT true of Plato's understanding of the process of human knowing?
(a) Knowing is merely recalling the knowledge that one knew before the soul was encased in a human body.
(b) Before birth the soul existed in the world of pure forms and knew these universal and perfect concepts.
(c) The shock of being born caused the soul's knowledge of the forms to be "forgotten" and locked away in the unconscious mind.
(d) At birth a human being is a Tabula Rasa (blank slate).

3. Which of the following is NOT true of Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
(a) While the jailer is asleep, some of the chained people manage to escape into the light of day and reality.
(b) The chained people see only shadows which they take to be reality.
(c) The human beings in the den are chained facing a wall so they cannot move or turn their heads.
(d) The journey upwards out of the cave and into the light represents the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world.

4. Which of the following is NOT true of Jon Amos Comenius?
(a) Comenius was a Bishop in the Moravian Church which was persecuted by both Protestants and Catholics in the Thirty Years' War.
(b) Comenius argued that girls ought to be educated at home in the village by their mothers while boys went to neighbouring towns to study anguage, geography, history, and the simpler crafts.
(c) Comenius produced the first-ever picture book fo children.
(d) Comenius is known today as the "Father of Modern Education."

5. Which of the following IS found in The Great Didactic by Jon Amos Comenius?
(a) Education ought to be done in the country, close to nature.
(b) Only the upper classes have need of education.
(c) Students should first memorize things and when older seek to understand them.
(d) Students should be occupied with only one object of study at any given time.

6. Which of the following IS part of the education Rousseau envisaged for Emile?
(a) His education ought to take advantage of the museums and art galleries in Paris.
(b) Nature provides for the child's growth in her own fashion and this should never be thwarted.
(c) It is not good for a young man to travel.
(d) Emile ought to be educated with boys from families of the same station in life as his father.

7. Which of the following is NOT part of the understanding Rousseau had of women?
(a) Women need expert teachers to acquire a firm grounding in religion, music, dance, literature, and the arts.
(b) Men could get on better without women than women could without men.
(c) Women are intended to please man; their strength is in their charms.
(d) Women need only a nodding acquaintance with logic and metaphysics.

8. Which of the following best describes Mary Wollstonecraft's opinion of Rousseau's Emile?
(a) She thought the education Rousseau proposed for Sophie and Emile are models we ought to follow.
(b) She thought that Rousseau's Emile had contributed to rendering women more artificial and weak than they would otherwise have been.
(c) She was bothered by the lack of emphasis on religious education in Emile.
(d) She agreed with Rousseau's assessment that "a woman's education must . . . be planned in relation to man."

Manitoba History of Education

1. Which of the following is NOT true of the history of education in Manitoba?
(a) The Manitoba Act of 1870 gave the Province exclusive jurisdiction in education
(b) Initially, control of education was in the hands of a government appointed Board of Education; half of the members Protestant and half Catholic.
(c) In 1879 a bill was passed by the Manitoba Legislature which fully integrated Catholic, Mennonite, and Icelandic schools into a seamless English non-denominational school system.
(d) In 1896 the so called "Catholic Schools Question" was resolved when a compromise was reached between Wilfred Laurier's Liberal dministration in Ottawa and Thomas Greenway's Liberal administration in Manitoba.

2. Which of the following IS true of the University of Manitoba?
(a) Early in its history, the University was known as Manitoba College.
(b) At its founding the University of Manitoba had a Faculty of Theology which became the Department of Religion in 1968.
(c) From its inception, the University taught courses in the areas of natural science and modern languages.
(d) Initially the University was an examining and degree granting institute for the three existing denominational colleges.

What is the Purpose of Schooling

1. Which of the following statements does NOT describe Canadian citizenship education?
(a) the capacity to participate in public life
(b) a reflective commitment to broad social values
(c) knowledge of Canada's penal code
(d) an awareness and respect for human rights

2. Which of the following statements does NOT support a progressive approach to teaching?
(a) child-centred approach
(b) works with what students already know
(c) teacher is the giver of knowledge and students are the recipients
(d) "active learning" is used

3. An approach to schooling that focuses on all aspects of human development would incorporate . . . ?
(a) morals and values
(b) citizenship
(c) knowledge and skills
(d) both (a) and (c)
(e) all of the above

4. Which of the three approaches to schooling would rank HIGHEST on Bloom's taxonomy of learning?
(a) knowledge and skills
(b) "drill and kill"
(c) citizenship education
(d) all aspects of human development

What kind of schools do we want?

School Choice Movements

1. Which of the following is NOT a school choice discussed in class?
(a) charter school
(b) collective school
(c) independent school
(d) magnet school

2. Which of the following option for a "school of choice" is the least controversial?
(a) tax credits
(b) public funds
(c) vouchers
(d) private schools

3. Where in Canada can you find Charter Schools?
(a) Alberta
(b) Manitoba
(c) Ontario
(d) Ninuvit

4. Where in Canada is the provincial government experimenting with "tax credits" as a way of helping those with children in private schools?
(a) Manitoba
(b) British Columbia
(c) Ontario
(d) Prince Edward Island

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true of school "voucher" proposals in North America.
(a) Historically, in both Canada and the United States, school "voucher" proposals were put forth by supporters of parochial schools wanting to shift the funding burden for their schools from parents to government.
(b) Today the moving force behind vouchers is the secular right, attacking the so-called monopoly of public education.
(c) "Vouchers" could be used in choosing among public schools but not for religious or private schools.
(d) Acceptance of vouchers would mean that a religious school would need to be more directly accountable to government, especially as regards curriculum, admissions, and ensuring that voucher students could be excused from religious activities.

6. There are now close to 1700 Charter Schools in the United States, and 11 in Canada (all in Alberta). Which of the following is NOT true of the Charter School movement?
(a) The charter school movement is meant to be a replacement for the current public school system.
(b) Parents express strongest satisfaction with the quality/methods of teaching, academic standards, small class sizes, and individual attention to students.
(c) Charter Schools are nonsectarian, independent, public schools which cannot ban any child from attending and cannot charge tuition.
(d) The Charter School movement advocates improvement of public schools, not abandonment.

Biculturalism to Multiculturalism

1. Post 1916, the Canadian education system followed which of the following changes in order of occurrence?
a) Multiculturalism, Monoculturalism, Biculturalism, Multiculturalism
b) Biculturalism, Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism
c) Canadian schools have always been multicultural
d) Monocultural, Bicultural

2. An "Ideal Model" for Multicultural Education would not include the following;
a) Education would target all students
b) Lower-class and minority parents would actively be involved in the school.
c) Organize content around current social issues involving racism, classism, sexism, and handicapism.
d) Remove students from core classes to be put into an ESL ( English as Second Language) program.

3. What was the primary outcome after French became Canada's second official language in 1969.
a) French was instantly accepted by all Canadians as a second language.
b) Spanish also became an official language in Canada.
c) Poutine became an instant best seller .
d) Many other minority groups fought to have equal language rights as the French Canadians.

4. In 1988, the Canadian Multicultural act was created. The most appropriate definition of this act would be;
a) Replaces religion in the schools with multicultural topics.
b) Integration of the French and English languages and culture across Canada.
c) Defines what a multicultural Canada would look like. A vision for the future.
d) Hopes to increase immigration for the following 10 years.

How do schools impact minorities?

1. "Androgyny" is . . . ?
(a) a masculine perspective
(b) a female perspective
(c) a blend of masculine and female perspectives
(d) none of the above

2. A school activity such as ice-hockey is prone to neglect students mostly because of . . . ?
(a) gender
(b) age
(c) it being the activity of a clique
(d) social class

3. Which of the following is NOT considered a positive impact on a classroom with a diverse cultural make-up?
(a) increased segregation among the students
(b) increased acceptance of those who are different
(c) diversification of extra-curricular activities
(d) increased exposure to new choices

4. Why did women's education in the 1800's focus on drama, music, and the arts?
(a) their education was goal oriented
(b) their education was not goal oriented
(c) only women were able to enter the professions
(d) both (a) and (c) are correct

Should Aboriginal Peoples control their own schools?

1. When aboriginal schools were open in Canada, the primary intent of the federal government was the ___________________ of aboriginal people.
(a) education
(b) assimilation
(c) integration
(d) elimination

2. In 1946 the federal government accepted recommendations to close residential schools. How many years did it take for this to be accomplished?
(a) 05
(b) 20
(c) 40
(d) 60

3. Children of the Earth school was the first aboriginal school in Winnipeg to be under the jurisdiction of . . . ?
(a) the provincial government
(b) a First Nations Band
(c) the federal government
(d) the Independent School Board

4. Children of the Earth School offers an approach that can best be described as . . . ?
(a) holistic
(b) offering a focussed curriculum
(c) culturally focussed
(d) specialized

Should Teachers Control Students?

1. Two ways in which teachers manage a classroom are:
a) Control Orientation and Persuasion
b) Collaborative Orientation and Threats
c) Praise and Promises
d) Collaborative Orientation and Control Orientation

2. Which of the following teacher skills is most likely to aid student learning and maintain discipline:
a) Smooth pacing of activities
b) A loud clear voice
c) Keeping students busy
d) Time spent with individual students

3. Observations have indicated that the use of _________________ is most effective in classroom management:
a) Collaboration and direct influence
b) Control and direct influence
c) Collaboration and indirect influence
d) Cntrol and indirect influence

4. Two reasons why students would acknowledge the teacher's right to be in control of the classroom:
a) Coercion and persuasion
b) Authority and threats
c) Persuasion and bribes
d) Fear and punishment

Technology in the Classroom

1. Ralph Barrett's article, "Present Tense Education" states that "Computer literacy is no
substitute for literacy in . . ."?
(a) language
(b) science
(c) humanities
(d) all of the above

2. Which is NOT one of the needs on which our assumptions about how learners and
teachers use technology should be based?
(a) accessibility
(b) affordability
(c) complexity
(d) convenience

3. Which Canadian corporate sponsor most benefited from the claim that "by nine years
of age, children are skeptical and by eleven they are often cynical"?
(a) Youth News Network
(b) International Business Machines
(c) Channel One
(d) Apple Computers

4. Hammer and Kellner claim that the "interactive dimension of new multimedia
technology can potentially involve students more integrally into historical research."
What do they hope to achieve with this?
(a) to teach cultural bias
(b) to teach tolerance
(c) to teach historical accuracy
(d) to teach modernization

Benefits of Schools run as Businesses

1. Which is not one of Bill Bumstead's beliefs?
a) In time, public schools will be replaced by the private sector, funded by the government and businesses.
b) In the emerging world, knowing how to process knowledge, rather than collecting, storing and retrieving, will be the primary skill.
c) While many corporate-education partnerships are benign, the effect of the larger corporate agenda for education, if achieved, will be devastating.
d) School based management is about the empowerment of teachers and principals to make decisions related to program delivery
e ) College hockey is just as exciting as CHL hockey.

2. According to Bill Bumstead, the role of the bureaucrat should be played by the ____________, the role of the educational leader should be the _____________, and the person in charge of custodial duties should be the _____________.
a) Principal, Custodian, Superintendent
b) Principal, Superintendent, Custodian
c) Custodian, Principal, Superintendent
d) Superintendent, Principal, Custodian
e) Three people who've never been in my kitchen.

3. Which of the following is not one of the Fundamentals of Edison Schools Design?
a) A better use of time
b) Technology for an information age
c) "Money for nothing and chicks for free"
d) Assessments that provide accountability

4. Which of the following is not a proposed benefit of business schools?
a) Provides students with marketable skills
b) Corporate partnerships provide greater access to resources and increased opportunity to provide a variety of electives
c) Less expensive to operate than a public school
d) Incorporation of technology

Values in the Classroom

1. Basic to this approach to moral/values education is the assumption that ". . . humans can arrive at values by an intelligent process of choosing, prizing, and behaving."
(a) Kolbergian dilemmas
(b) Indoctrination
(c) Values Clarification
(d) Faith Development Theory

2. This is Stage One of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development.
(a) The Stage of Punishment and Obedience
(b) The Stage of Individual Instrumental Purpose and Exchange
(c) The Stage of Mutual Interpersonal Expectations, Relationships, and Conformity
(d) The Stage of Social System Maintenance

3.Which of the following IS true of James Fowler's understanding of Synthetic-Conventional Faith?
(a) It is a conformist stage, because the opinions and authority of significant others plays a powerful role.
(b) It is a stage which embraces the world as its community.
(c) It is a stage which faces the paradoxes and contradictions within the self and experience and attains some measure of integration.
(d) It is a stage characterized by an abandoning of reliance on external authority.

4. James W. Fowler sees "faith" as a universal human experience with three interconnecting dimensions. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
(a) An intellectual dimension of belief
(b) A mystical or numinous dimension
(c) An affective dimension of trusting
(d) An actional component of doing the deeds of faith

God in the Classroom

1. In Better Schools: A Values Perspective this author identifies two senses of the term 'religion:' what he calls the 'popular' sense and the 'broad' sense.
(a) Jean Piaget
(b) Clive Beck
(c) James W. Fowler
(d) Lawrence Kohlberg

2. "When all is said and done, however, I hold to one hope: That it will be possible for all of our
children--Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, Jews, secular humanists, and so on--to play together in the school yard and to study together in the classroom, without fear of either religious compromise or religious harassment. Accommodating religious difference within a public system through teaching about it, acknowledging and honouring holy days, and respecting religious symbols are important steps towards mutual understanding, healthy equality, and integration. The new fabric we weave as a result could well produce a Canada in which tolerance will be a matter of practice, not mere rhetoric, a country that could truly be a living example of what's possible when a liberal democracy takes the pluralist ideal seriously." Who is the author of these words?
(a) James W. Fowler
(b) Lois Sweet
(c) Clive Beck
(d) Lawrence Kohlberg

3. Which of the following religion-oriented schools receives funding, at least in most cases?
a) Hindu
b) Catholic
c) Lutheran
d) Sikh

4. Which of the following is not an advantage of having related programs run through public schools?
a) Probably more likely to receive funding
b) Encourages a sense of community
c) Decreased danger of 'outside' pollution, such as racism, slander and general misunderstanding
d) Students from different religions would be willing to come together within the same school

5. Why are religious advocates so eager to teach creationism alongside evolution?
a) They hope their children will be raised to believe the same things they do
b) Because, like evolution, creationism is based on faith, not evidence, and therefore should be given equal weight in the classroom
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Neither of the above

6. In Manitoba,
a) All private school get 80% funding
b) Catholics are fully funded by the public
c) Everybody has equal access
d) Protestant schools are not funded