Midterm Exam Answers

Question: Mutegi argues that students of African descent should not learn Western Modern Science?

Answer: false

-Socially transformative curriculum is aimed at positioning students to change the world in which they live. As it applies to Mutegi’s work, the interest is in improving the social condition of African people. (Page 306)

Question: The primary purpose of “socially transformative curriculum” is to help students reach self-actualization.

Answer: false

-Socially transformative curriculum is aimed at positioning students to change the world in which they live. As it applies to Mutegi’s work, the interest is in improving the social condition of African people. (Page 306)

Question: Mutegi criticizes the goals for school science as articulated in the National Science Education Standards, because attainment of these goals would not improve the social condition of African Americans.

Answer: true

Question: The five countries (Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Swaziland, and Zambia) are found in which geographic region?

Answer: southern africa

Question: Which of these terms refers to the process in which men achieve a deepening awareness both of the sociocultural reality that shapes their lives and of their capacity to transform that reality.

Answer: conscientization

-Mutegi cites Freire who describes conscientization as, “the process in which men, not as recipients, but as knowing subjects achieve a deepening awareness both of the sociocultural reality that shapes their lives and of their capacity to transform that reality.” (Page 307)

Question: Mutegi identifies five goals provided by critical pedagogists. Which of the following is not one of them?

Answer: respect for other cultures

Question: The primary purpose of ___________ _______________ curriculum perspective is to pass on the best products of the intellectual culture.

Answer: cultural transmission

Question: The ****

**** curriculum perspective is aimed at positioning students to change the world in which they live. As it applies to Mutegi’s work, the interest is in improving the social condition of African people.

Answer: socially transformative

Question: Mutegi argues that offering the “same” science education for students of African descent and those of non-African descent is not an adequate solution. Why is this not an adequate solution.

Answer: Students of African descent need a curriculum that is designed for their social needs.

Question: According to Gatto, successful children do the thinking they are assigned. They also do it with a show of enthusiasm. Bad children fight against being told what and how to think. They try to make decisions for themselves.

Answer: true