CHAPTER 4- PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF U.S EDUCATION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #12
1. Why is philosophy important to teachers?: -enables the understanding of complex political
forces that influence schools
-enhance professionalism
-use as a guide for professional action
-focuses efforts
-your educational philosophy
2. what is your educational philosophy built of: Beliefs about teaching and learn- ing (transmission
and construction of knowledge), beliefs about students, beliefs about knowledge, and beliefs
about what is worth knowing
3. Explain six branches of philosophy that are important to teachers: -meta- physics
-epistemology
-axiology
-ethics
-aesthetics
-logic
4. Describe five modern philosophical orientations to teaching: -perennialism
-essentialism
-progressivism
-existentialism
-social reconstructionism
5. Explain three schools of psychological thought that can influence the teacher's philosophy.:
-Humanism
-Behaviorism
-Constructivism
6. Explain how you will develop your eclectic educational psychology to guide your own teaching:
continually strive for a clear, more comprehensive answer to basic philosophical questions
7. Philosophy: Use of logical reasoning to inquire about basic truths about being knowledge
and conduct
8. Educational philosophy: A set of ideas and beliefs about education that guide the
professional behavior of educators.
9. Deficit thinking: personal beliefs that can lead a teacher to have lower expec- tations for
students from cultural backgrounds that differ from the more affluent dominant culture
10.cultural capital: The knowledge, behaviors, and skills that enable people to be successful in
their own culture
11.Funds of knowledge: Historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge
and skills essential for an individual to function well in a given culture
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS #12
1. Why is philosophy important to teachers?: -enables the understanding of complex political
forces that influence schools
-enhance professionalism
-use as a guide for professional action
-focuses efforts
-your educational philosophy
2. what is your educational philosophy built of: Beliefs about teaching and learn- ing (transmission
and construction of knowledge), beliefs about students, beliefs about knowledge, and beliefs
about what is worth knowing
3. Explain six branches of philosophy that are important to teachers: -meta- physics
-epistemology
-axiology
-ethics
-aesthetics
-logic
4. Describe five modern philosophical orientations to teaching: -perennialism
-essentialism
-progressivism
-existentialism
-social reconstructionism
5. Explain three schools of psychological thought that can influence the teacher's philosophy.:
-Humanism
-Behaviorism
-Constructivism
6. Explain how you will develop your eclectic educational psychology to guide your own teaching:
continually strive for a clear, more comprehensive answer to basic philosophical questions
7. Philosophy: Use of logical reasoning to inquire about basic truths about being knowledge
and conduct
8. Educational philosophy: A set of ideas and beliefs about education that guide the
professional behavior of educators.
9. Deficit thinking: personal beliefs that can lead a teacher to have lower expec- tations for
students from cultural backgrounds that differ from the more affluent dominant culture
10.cultural capital: The knowledge, behaviors, and skills that enable people to be successful in
their own culture
11.Funds of knowledge: Historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge
and skills essential for an individual to function well in a given culture
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