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Which of the contemporary educational theories will endorse the view that "The only type of adjustment to which education should lead is adjustment to the truth which is universal and unchanging"?

The correct answer is

Perennialism

Perennialism centres education on enduring truths and fundamental ideas, so it best matches adjustment to universal, unchanging truth. Progressivism emphasises inquiry through experience, existentialism personal choice and responsibility, and essentialism a core of foundational knowledge and skills.

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Important Questions from Western schools of thoughts - Teaching

  1. According to whom, communist society will be at the last stage of the history of man?

  2. Class struggle is a characteristic of which philosophy?

    I. Capitalism

    II. Marxism

  3. Below are two sets. Set - I mentions thinkers while Set - II consists of schools of thought associated with them. Match the two and choose from the code to indicate your answer.

     Set - I

     (Thinkers)

     Set - II

     (Schools of thought)

    (a) A.J. Ayer (i) Linguistic analysis
     (b) Wittgenstein  (ii) Logical Positivism
     (c) Bertrend Russel  (iii) Neorealism
     (d) G.E. Moore  (iv) Positive Relativism
     (v) Logical Empiricism
     (vi) Logical Atomism
  4. Which philosophical approach, developed by thinkers such as William James, interprets ideas by examining their practical consequences in experience?

  5. Which educational philosophy was developed by Morris L. Bigge and presented in his 1971 book subtitled An Emergent Educational Philosophy?

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