foundation of education solved past paper

Q-1 Define scaffolding:
Scaffolding: “role of teachers and others in supporting the learner’s development and providing support structures to get to the next stage or level.”
In an educational context, however, scaffolding is an instructional structure whereby the teacher models the desired learning strategy or task then gradually shifts responsibility to the students.
Scaffolding:
-          Provides support
-          Extends the range of what a learner can do
-          Allows the learner to accomplish tasks otherwise impossible
Used only when needed
Q-2 How can Robert Gagne’s define theory of learning?
Robert Gagne’s Learning outcomes-1
v  Five learning outcomes (observable and measureable)
  1. Intellectual skills: “knowing how” to organize and use verbal and mathematical symbols, concepts and rules to solve a problem.
  2. Information: “knowing what” – knowledge and facts
  3. Cognitive strategies: “learning strategies” needed to process information
  4. Motor skills: Ability to coordinate movements.
  5. Attitudes: feelings and emotions developed from positive and negative experiences.
Mental operations needed for each outcome differ. Gagne’s Instructional Events lead into cognitive psychology.

Q-3 Write the application of education using epistemology and Metaphysics under the progressivism and pragmatism?
Role of the teacher under Idealism and Perennialism:
-          Teacher is expert of content knowledge
-          Passes on to next generation the accumulated wisdom of the past
The student:
-          Is there to learn what is taught
Realism-Essentialism Application to Education:
Metaphysics:
What is real? Does it have meaning?
-          What are relevant are what helps an individual lives well and what benefits humanity.
Epistemology:
Knowledge and knowing --- What is truth?
-          Truth exists in the classics and modern science. Students must learn process and content. Knowledge is gained through the interaction of experiences and rational thought.
 Realism/Essentialism: (Topic: 55)
Axiology:
Values, ethics and athletics
Determined by the natural order of things. Values exist in the best of culture.
Logic:
How we think? Deductive and Inductive.
Rationality is best developed through interplay of deductive and inductive thinking.
The teacher: (Topic: 56)
-          Teacher is expert of content knowledge.
-          Teaches essential knowledge
-          Maintains task-oriented focus
The students:
-          Is there to listen and learn
Pragmatism/Progressivism: (Topic: 57)
Applications to Education:
Metaphysics:
What is real? Does it have meaning?
Reality is in flux and ever-changing, so meaning is in the context of the individual, who is a “problem-solver.”
Epistemology:
-          Knowledge and knowing---- What is truth?
-          Knowledge is gained via individual experience. Truth is individually defined so that emphasis is on learning how to learn.
Axiology: (Topic: 58)
-          Values, ethics and athletics.
-          Determined by each individual in interaction with his/her culture, based on the shared values of the community or culture.
Logic:
-          How we think? Deductive and Inductive
-          Emphasis is on inductive thinking and problem solving
The teacher’s role: (Topic: 59)
-          Teacher is facilitator of student learning; provides resources for students’ problem-solving abilities. Develop students’ problem solving abilities. Helps students to do what they want to do.
The student:
-          Learns by doing and discovering
5 Marks
Q-5 Define phenomenology with examples?3Marks
-          Phenomenology examines pattern of subjective experience and consciousness
-          Focus upon a systematic reflection on and investigation of the structures of consciousness: Realist concepts can be examined scientifically.
-          Based solely on consciousness
-          Individuals will be influenced by others, but not same experience
-          Views social world as multiform structure
-          Inner subjectivity
-          Group understanding/unity
-          For example: the hammer? A common tool – As what do we experience this hammer? It is many things to many people. Such as to a carpenter it is a tool; to a retailer it is merchandise; to a killer it is weapon; to a lecturer it is a prop, to my friend it is a nuisance; to a communist, it is a symbol.

Q-6 Give examples of positive and negative punishment in daily life? 2 Marks
Q-7 Albert Bandura theory? 3 Marks



1.      Write the application of education using epistemology and Metaphysics under the essentialism and realism? 5 Marks
2.      Explain concrete operational stage of cognitive development by Paiget’s? And also gives the Examples?
  1.  Sensorimotor: Lasts from birth to 2 years
The child:
-          Uses his senses and his increasing motor skills to explore the environment
-          Begins to use language to imitate and represent the environment
Egocentric:
-          The child is aware only of himself and his own likes, dislikes, and wants
-          He cannot see other people’s perspectives
Topic: 103 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-2
Assimilation:
-          To incorporate new ideas into an existing schema (or concept) i.e. ball
Accommodation means:
-          To adopt old schema (concept) and develop new schema for interacting with it.
-          When a child adapts his/her existing ideas to fit new understandings.
Assimilation
(Filing information in an existing schema)
+
Accommodation
(Changing schemata to fit new information)
=
Learning
Examples of Acquisitions
  • Trial-and-error experimentation: Exploration and manipulation of objects to determine their properties
  • Goal-directed behavior: Intentional behavior to bring about a desired result
  • Object permanence: Realization that objects continue to exist even when removed from view
  • Symbolic thought: Representation of physical objects and events as mental entities (symbols)
Topic: 104 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-3
  1. Preoperational:
-          Lasts from 2 – 7 years
-          The child can speak and print words
-          His memory and imagination develops
-          His thinking is often not logical
-          Much egocentric thinking occurs
-          He learns that symbols represent something else;
Examples of Acquisitions
  • Language: Rapid expansion of vocabulary and grammatical structures
  • Extensive pretend play: Enactment of true-to-life or fanciful scenarios with plots and assigned roles (e.g., mommy, doctor, Superman)
  • Intuitive thought: Some logical thinking based on "hunches" and "intuition" rather than on conscious awareness of logical principles (especially after age 4)
Topic: 105 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-4
  1. Concrete Operational:
-          Lasts from 7 – 11 years
-          The child has the ability to do simple math and measurement, with manipulatives
-          He begins to understand cause and effect
-          He can think about real, concrete things in systematic ways, but cannot understand abstract concepts
-          He is no longer egocentric (he can now understand other people’s points of view)
Topic: 106 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-5
Concrete Operational: Conservation means
-          The amount, weight, volume, and number of things stay the same even when the outward appearance of objects or groups is changed. For example, a short glass of water is the same amount as a tall glass half full of water.
Topic: 107 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-6
Concrete Operational: reversibility means:
-          An action can be undone or reverted to its previous state
-          A ball of clay can be made into a clay bowl but it can be reformed into a ball of clay
Examples of Acquisitions
  • Distinction between one's own and others' perspectives: Recognition that one's own thoughts and feelings may be different from those of others and do not necessarily reflect reality
  • Class inclusion: Ability to classify objects as belonging to two or more categories simultaneously
  • Conservation: Realization that amount stays the same if nothing is added or taken away, regardless of alterations in shape or arrangement
Topic: 108 – Jean Piaget Cognitive Developmental Stages-7
  1. Formal Operational:
-          He is able to use logic and abstract thinking
-          He questions previously accepted thoughts, ideas and values
Schema theory explains:
-          Importance of accessing prior knowledge
-          Why cognitive dissonance strategies work
Examples of Acquisitions
  • Reasoning about abstract, hypothetical, and contrary-to-fact ideas: Ability to draw logical deductions about situations that have no basis in physical reality
  • Separation and control of variables: Ability to test hypotheses by manipulating one variable while holding other variables constant
  • Proportional reasoning: Conceptual understanding of fractions, percentages, decimals, and ratios
  • Idealism: Ability to envision alternatives to current social and political practices (sometimes with little regard for what is realistically possible in a given time frame)

3.      Law of exercise with examples
4.      James Watson contribution.
        Watson took Pavlov’s findings to another level.
        Emphasized that learning was observable or measureable, not cognitive
       Believed the key to learning was in conditioning a child from an early age based on                 Pavlov’s methods.
          Nurture vs. nature
Watson’s theories strengthened the argument for the influence of experiences as opposed to genetics
Scaffolding example in classroom setting

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EDU 101 Foundation of Education
Current Mid Term Papers
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Paper 1:
Q. What is psychology?
Psychology is the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors including:
-          Perception
-          Cognition
-          Behavior
-          Emotion
-          Personality
-          Interpersonal relationships

Q. explain postmodernism in your words
-          Postmodernism means literally ‘after the modern era’. The modern era was the time of certainty and stretched from the 18th century to the late 20th century.
-          Post modernists believe that this era was far more predictable than the times we live in today, e.g. jobs were for life and class was major source of identity.
-          Since around the 1970’s we have been living in times characterized by risk and diversity.
-          Consequently, this has had huge implications for education.
-          Continuation of modernist view
-          Does not mourn loss of history, self, religion, center
-          A term applied to all human sciences ---anthropology, psychology, architecture, history etc.
-          Reaction to modernism; systematic skepticism
Anti-foundational
Q. proponents of essentialism?
Q. explain pre-operational stage with example
Q.chracteristics of cognitive psychology
-          Focus on how individuals process information
Emphasis on memory (storage, retrieval, types) chunking can aid working memory, which is limited. Successful learners transfer information to long term memory --- “infinite” in capacity
diffrntiate the curriculum of Idealism and realism
q:Phenomology Theory
Paper 2:
1. congnitive psychology
Replaced behaviorism as dominant philosophy in 1960s
  1. Criticism of behaviorism:
Did not explain
-          language and learning
-          why people respond differently to the same stimulus
-          reinforcement can reduce motivation
  1. Popularity of newly discovered theories of Piaget and Vygotsky in the 50’s and 60’s



2.Under realism and essentialism teacher and student role





5 identify conditioning from example  and why apply of these conditioning


Paper 3:
 1:thorndike ka law of exercise

2:reward and punishment ke examples in our dailylife

3:maria montessori ke contribution
v  Psychiatrist Clinic at the University of Rome --- taught “difficult” children to read at a normal level.
v  1906 asked to start a progressive school for slum children of Italy --- Casa dei Bambini (Children’s House)
Why she was important?
v  Pioneer of child advocacy --- for exceptional children, low SES children.
v  Discuss Tyler and Taba’s Traditionsl vs. Progressive study (1920 ---- 30% HS)
Modern Irony --- Expense of Montessori School

4:idealistic and realistic theory ke curriculum mai difference

5:key proponents of existentialists theory?

6:,robert gagne hierarchy important points of his theory?

7:7th question wo jo assigmnet mai lion wala khai yai classical or operant conditiong select one and explain also why wo aya tha.
paper 4
how can we apply gegne's theory in our classroom/
Write about the role of teachers and students under the pregmatisn and progressivism
Define electisism?
What are the principles of cognitivist?
Explain operant condition with examples of daily life.
Topic: 083 – Operant Conditioning-1
v  Types of reinforcers (stimuli)
-          Primary – Stimuli fulfilling basic human drives such as food and water.
-          Secondary – personally important such as approval of friends or teachers, winning money, awards or recognition. Secondary reinforcers can become primary. Due to the wide range of secondary reinforcers, Skinner referred to them as generalized.
Topic: 084 – Operant Conditioning-2
v  Operant behavior will “extinguish” without reinforcement.
-          Positive reinforcement – presenting a reinforcing stimulus.
-          Negative reinforcement – removing/withdrawing a stimulus or reinforce but it is not punishment.
Topic: 085 – Operant Conditioning-3
v  Operant behavior will “extinguish” without reinforcement.
-          Punishment – presenting harmful stimuli (rejected by Skinner because he felt it inferred with learning)
-          “Reinforcers often strengthen behavior”
-          “Punishment is used to suppress behavior”
Topic: 086 – Operant Conditioning-4
v  Desired operant behaviors must be reinforced in a timely manner. Delay of reinforcement hinders performance.
v  By selecting, which behavior to reinforce, we can direct the learning process in the classroom.
v  Learner’s can acquire new operant’s.
-          As behavior is shaped, new and more complex concepts can be introduced and desired behavior again reinforced.
-          “Education is what survives when what has been learned as been forgotten”



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