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Educational psychology applies principles of human development, learning and motivation to teaching and classroom behaviour. It covers cognitive, social, emotional and moral development, intelligence, individual differences, memory, attention, learning theories, personality, motivation and transfer of learning. Developmental psychology describes growth, while educational psychology connects that growth with educational settings.
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- A. Epistemology
- B. Axiology
- C. Ontology
- D. All of these options are correct
Explanation: Ontology studies the nature of being and reality, so a statement about Allah as the absolute reality of the universe is ontological.
Correct answer: Ontology- A. Dictatorship
- B. Democracy
- C. Egalitarian
- D. None of these
Explanation: A government in which leaders are determined by counting the people’s votes is a democracy.
Correct answer: Democracy- A. Flexible rules of entry and exit
- B. No rules of entry and exit
- C. Rigid rules of entry and exit
- D. None of these
Explanation: Informal education has no prescribed admission, attendance, progression, or completion rules because it occurs naturally through life and…
Correct answer: No rules of entry and exit- A. Values
- B. Reality
- C. Knowledge
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Axiology is the branch of philosophy concerned with values, including moral, aesthetic, and educational values.
Correct answer: Values345. Which of the following Philosophers/Thinkers who said, "Knowledge is Virtue____________________?"
- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Socrates
- D. Sophocles
Explanation: Socrates is associated with the maxim “Knowledge is virtue,” meaning that genuine knowledge of the good should guide moral action.
Correct answer: Socrates- A. Plato
- B. Socrates
- C. Aristotle
- D. Sophocles
Explanation: Socrates viewed education as leading the learner toward enduring and universal truths rather than merely supplying information.
Correct answer: Socrates- A. Cairo
- B. Tehran
- C. Baghdad
- D. Tunis
Explanation: The Nizamiyah Madrasa where Al-Ghazali taught was located in Baghdad, the major intellectual centre of the Abbasid period.
Correct answer: Baghdad- A. Plato
- B. Shah Wali Ullah
- C. Aristotle
- D. Al-Ghazali
Explanation: Al-Ghazali described human tendencies symbolically as the Sage, Pig, Dog, and Devil, representing intellect, lust, anger, and brutality.
Correct answer: Al-Ghazali- A. Utilitarianism
- B. Surrealism
- C. Structuralism
- D. Historicism
Explanation: In the classification used by this question, utilitarianism refers to giving education a practical and beneficial purpose.
Correct answer: Utilitarianism- A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
- B. Al-Ghazali
- C. Farabi
- D. Aristotle
Explanation: Ibn Khaldun is often called the father of political economy because he analysed labour, production, taxation, trade, and the rise and…
Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun- A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
- B. Al-Ghazali
- C. Ellis
- D. Malik Shah
Explanation: Ibn Khaldun made major contributions to history, education, and sociology, especially through his analysis of social institutions and the…
Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun- A. F. Froebel
- B. John Dewey
- C. Pestalozzi
- D. Ibn-e-Khaldun
Explanation: Ibn Khaldun treated the pursuit of knowledge as a natural human capacity and a right that should extend to both men and women.
Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun- A. John Dewey
- B. Ibn-e-Khaldun
- C. Robert Franklin
- D. None of these
Explanation: Ibn Khaldun viewed education as a means of developing disciplined individuals and sustaining the moral values needed by society.
Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun- A. Shah Wali Ullah
- B. Al-Ghazali
- C. Ibn-e-Khaldun
- D. None of these
Explanation: Fozul Kabir, Hujjatullah al-Balighah, Tafhimat Ilahiyyah, and related works are associated with Shah Waliullah.
Correct answer: Shah Wali Ullah- A. Shah Wali Ullah
- B. Allama Iqbal
- C. Al-Ghazali
- D. None of these
Explanation: Shah Waliullah viewed education as purposeful and linked it with reforming individuals and society.
Correct answer: Shah Wali Ullah- A. Aristotle
- B. Plato
- C. Thomas Arnold
- D. Sophocles
Explanation: Thomas Arnold was the renowned Orientalist and scholar who taught Allama Iqbal at Government College Lahore.
Correct answer: Thomas Arnold- A. Allama Iqbal
- B. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
- C. Aristotle
- D. Sophocles
Explanation: Mard-e-Momin, meaning the spiritually strong and self-realised believer, is a central ideal in Allama Iqbal's philosophy.
Correct answer: Allama Iqbal- A. Akal (Intellect)
- B. Ilm (knowledge)
- C. Khabr (Information) and Imitation (Nakl)
- D. All of these
Explanation: The question groups intellect, knowledge, information or revelation, and transmitted learning as sources connected with Iqbal's theory of…
Correct answer: All of these- A. Allama Iqbal
- B. Shah Wali Ullah
- C. Maulana Maududi
- D. Al-Ghazali
Explanation: Maulana Maududi described human beings as Allah's best creation and emphasized their freedom of thought, choice, expression, and action…
Correct answer: Maulana Maududi- A. A teacher should be a true Muslim
- B. Education is compulsory for men and women and Arabic language should be the part of curriculum
- C. True knowledge is always be practical and Islamization of knowledge is a great need of the time
- D. All of these included
Explanation: Maududi's educational philosophy combined Islamic character formation with compulsory education for both sexes, Arabic instruction…
Correct answer: All of these included