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Training prepares an individual |
| | A) | for various and wide-ranging roles. |
| | B) | to understand and be sensitive to ideas to which he or she might otherwise be indifferent. |
| | C) | to build on the successes and failures of those who have come before. |
| | D) | to respond predictably with the skills needed to fulfill a specific role. |
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Which of the following best describes the difference between education and training? |
| | A) | Training is learning that occurs as a result of an institution's hidden curriculum, while education is the totality of experiences that occur while at school. |
| | B) | Training improves an individual's ability to reproduce the responses of his or her teacher, while education fosters an individual's intellect and ability to hypothesize various outcomes to a situation. |
| | C) | Education provides the tools for an individual to fulfill a specific role, while training deepens one's understanding of a wide range of roles. |
| | D) | Education provides an individual with the improved ability to do something, while training provides an individual with the ability to understand and make calculations about various situations. |
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Which of the following is not a part of the analytic framework that the authors use to help explain the relationship between American society and its public schools? |
| | A) | ideology |
| | B) | schooling |
| | C) | social context |
| | D) | political economy |
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Which of the following statements about Athenian citizens is not true? |
| | A) | All men born in Athens were considered citizens. |
| | B) | All citizens owned property. |
| | C) | Citizens served in the military or, in the case of the wealthy, supported the military through taxes. |
| | D) | All citizens had the opportunity to be a voting member of the Athenian general assembly and to serve on the legislative council. |
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All of the following statements about Athenian slavery are true, except |
| | A) | slavery was fundamental to the leisurely lifestyle of the upper-class citizen. |
| | B) | without slavery, the economic and class systems could not have been sustained. |
| | C) | slaves were state-owned and, therefore, public property. |
| | D) | slavery was justified on racist grounds. |
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Athenian schooling |
| | A) | did not emphasize music and literature, leaving those pursuits to be learned at home. |
| | B) | was aimed at teaching virtue, good citizenship, and the skills to rule and obey. |
| | C) | focused on preparing youths for specific occupations. |
| | D) | was an alternative for those who decided not to enter military service. |
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Good social theory |
| | A) | excludes the world of practice from its explanations. |
| | B) | concentrates solely on the why and not on the how. |
| | C) | rejects any aspect that is not easily quantified. |
| | D) | makes sense of social phenomena through an explanation of both reality and practice. |
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Which of the following is not true about the social foundations of education? |
| | A) | It provides background information about school-society relationships. |
| | B) | It helps teachers put classroom events into context. |
| | C) | It equips teachers with the ability to resist the temptation to be influenced by society at large. |
| | D) | It enables teachers to adjust teaching practices according to the larger social context that influences what goes on in the classroom. |
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Which of the following is true about Athenian ideology? |
| | A) | Athenians believed that the ideal life is led by reason and virtue. |
| | B) | Athenians believed that political democracy played an important role in enabling individuals to live lives of reason and virtue. |
| | C) | Athenians believed that women lacked rational capacity, and therefore excluded them from political participation. |
| | D) | All the answers are correct. |
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Learning and teaching that occur in school but are not a part of a school's curricular or extracurricular activities is known as a school's |
| | A) | hidden curriculum. |
| | B) | teaching method. |
| | C) | ideology. |
| | D) | political economy. |
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