Paper 1 · Teaching Aptitude
The principle that the child, the school and education itself are shaped largely by social and cultural forces was enunciated by
AReconstructionism ✓ Correct
BExistentialism
CPragmatism
DPerennialism
Correct answer: (A) Reconstructionism — The principle belongs to reconstructionism, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The principle belongs to reconstructionism, so that is the answer.
★Reconstructionism holds that education should rebuild society, so it views the child, the school and education as products of social and cultural forces.
★Because society shapes the learner, the reconstructionist aims to use the school in turn to reform and reconstruct that society.
★Existentialism centres on the free individual and self-understanding, not on society as the shaping force.
★Pragmatism stresses utility and problem solving through experience rather than social reconstruction as the guiding aim.
★Perennialism looks to permanent, unchanging truths, which is opposite to a view built on social and cultural change.
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