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Instructional approaches determine how teachers present content, involve learners and achieve lesson objectives. Coverage includes lecture, discussion, demonstration, questioning, problem-solving, cooperative learning, project and activity methods, along with teacher-centred and learner-centred approaches. Method selection depends on the subject, learners, available resources and intended learning outcome.
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- A. Formal education
- B. Informal education
- C. Non-formal education
- D. None of these
Explanation: Formal education is deliberately organised and provided through recognised institutions such as schools, colleges and universities.
Correct answer: Formal education- A. Essentialism
- B. Perenialism
- C. Progressivism
- D. All of these
Explanation: Progressivism treats experience, experimentation and problem-solving as central sources of genuine knowledge.
Correct answer: Progressivism- A. Discussion method and principles of moving from easier to difficult
- B. Moving from known to unknown and single subject method. Principle of mother tongue and revision method
- C. Gradation method and principle of connection. Traveling and conferencing method and principle of continuity
- D. All of these
Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun advocated gradual instruction, movement from the known to the unknown, revision, continuity, and learning through travel and…
Correct answer: All of these- A. To guide
- B. To help
- C. To draw out
- D. Both A&B
Explanation: *Educere* is a Latin term meaning “to draw out,” suggesting that education draws out or develops the learner’s inborn abilities.
Correct answer: To draw out- A. Non-formal
- B. Informal
- C. Distance methods
- D. Formal
Explanation: Non-formal education is organized learning outside the rigid structure of formal schooling, so it usually allows flexible entry…
Correct answer: Non-formal- A. Content
- B. Methods
- C. Goal
- D. None of these
Explanation: A desirable change in behaviour describes the goal or intended outcome of teaching.
Correct answer: Goal- A. Teaching methodology
- B. Practical education
- C. Reading and writing
- D. None of these
Explanation: Progressivism stresses learning through experience, problem-solving, and practical activity, making practical education central to the…
Correct answer: Practical education- A. Media
- B. School
- C. Home
- D. Teacher
Explanation: Non-formal education depends heavily on media because television, radio, print, and digital platforms can reach learners outside the…
Correct answer: Media- A. Sympathy with the students
- B. Teachers should always express themselves as role models for the students
- C. Teacher always act as spiritual father of a student
- D. All of these
Explanation: Iqbal's educational thought emphasizes sympathy for learners, the teacher's exemplary character, and the teacher's spiritually formative…
Correct answer: All of these- A. Non-formal
- B. Informal
- C. Formal
- D. None of these
Explanation: Non-formal education commonly uses radio, television, print materials, and other media to reach learners outside regular schools.
Correct answer: Non-formal- A. National Education Policy 1978
- B. National Education Commission 1959
- C. First Educational Conference 1947
- D. National Education Policy 1992
Explanation: Mobile Teacher Training Units were proposed in the 1992 policy to take professional development to teachers in different locations.
Correct answer: National Education Policy 1992- A. Students
- B. Teacher
- C. Administrator
- D. Headmaster
Explanation: The teacher is called the pivot because teaching, guidance, classroom interaction and the implementation of educational aims depend…
Correct answer: Teacher- A. 1998
- B. 1992
- C. 1978
- D. None of these
Explanation: The 1998 policy recognized radio and television as useful mass media for improving literacy, especially where conventional educational…
Correct answer: 1998- A. 1947
- B. 1959
- C. 1998
- D. 1992Primary & Secondary Schooling (K-12)
Explanation: The project method was proposed for secondary schools in the 1998 policy to make learning more practical, participatory and connected with…
Correct answer: 1998- A. Introductory
- B. Developing
- C. Recapitulatory
- D. Evaluatory
Explanation: Developing questions are used while presenting and exploring a new topic, helping learners connect ideas and deepen understanding.
Correct answer: Developing- A. Galleries
- B. Schools
- C. Universities
- D. Libraries
Explanation: Sophists and philosophers commonly taught in public galleries or other open civic spaces rather than in modern universities or libraries.
Correct answer: Galleries337. In ancient times in Greece, the young people could learn alongside a philosopher or___________?
- A. Sophocles
- B. Sophists
- C. Aristotle
- D. Plato
Explanation: Young Greeks could study with philosophers or Sophists, who taught rhetoric, argumentation and practical knowledge for public life.
Correct answer: Sophists- A. 4 types
- B. 3 types
- C. 5 types
- D. 6 types
Explanation: The Socratic question-and-answer approach is commonly described through four main types of questions, used to clarify ideas, examine…
Correct answer: 4 types- A. John Locke
- B. Pestalozzi
- C. John Dewey
- D. Rousseau
Explanation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau expressed his educational philosophy through Emile, which presents education as a natural, child-centred process.
Correct answer: Rousseau- A. Questioning
- B. Vocabulary
- C. Senses
- D. Revealed knowledge
Explanation: The Socratic method develops concepts through systematic questioning, in which the teacher guides learners to examine assumptions and…
Correct answer: Questioning