True and False questions
Assignment 1 and Past Question Papers 2024
Question 1: State whether the following statements are true or false. (10 marks)
(a) A community is a group of people who live, learn, and work together in harmony and shares life experiences
and culture. True
(b) Formal education refers to formal and planned educative activities that usually take place in later years.
False
(c) Tertiary socialisation is a programme of formal and systematic instruction that takes place primary in
classrooms but includes extra-curricular activities and out of class assignments. False
(d) African schooling is education that occur in a spontaneous, unplanned way. True
(e) Primary socialisation is probably the most important aspect of the socialisation process and takes place
during the early years of childhood that mainly takes place in the family. True
(f) The vulnerable character of the present-day family includes educational vulnerable and economically
vulnerable. True
(g) Learner centred approach can be actualised through involvement work together as adults, educators, and
friends. False
(h) Epistemology focuses on the study of concepts and principles that underlie evaluations of objects and human
behaviours. False
(i) Teachers expect the following behaviours from parents; support-moral, intellectual and financial. False
(j) Sexual abuse, molestation or indecent assault refers to any person who is responsible for a child and who
intentionally hurts him/her or allows a child to be hurt, is guilty of molestation or assault. True
(k) A parenting style that is permissive and unobtrusive can also be neglectful. True
(l) African schooling is education that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way. False
(m) Primary socialisation is probably the most important aspect of the socialisation process and takes place
during the early years of childhood, which mainly takes place in the family. True
(n) The vulnerable character of the present-day family includes educational vulnerable and economically
vulnerable. True
(o) What people mean in their everyday usage of the term "uneducated" can be better expressed as unschooled.
True
(p) At the root of Daoism is an attempt to harmonise human beings with nature and their true nature. True
First Opportunity Exams
October/November 2023
2.1. Education is synonymous with schooling. False
2.2. Ethics and aesthetics are sub-divisions of metaphysics. False
2.3. A school can be regarded as an agent of socialization for children. True
2.4. Epistemology focuses on the nature of what we value and how we value it. False
2.5. Miseducation lacks the key elements of the definition of education.
2.6. The key proponent of the African philosophy of Negritude was Mobuto Sese Seko. False
2.7. The study of educational philosophy is instrumental in guiding teacher's professional practices. True
2.8. Not all aspects of globalization are or have had beneficial impacts on education in the Namibian context.
True
2.9. In the Namibian context, schooling is the primary means through which native cultural values, cultures and
norms are preserved. False
2.10. The ontological position of idealism and realism are the same. False
2.11. Indoctrination is not synonymous with education. True
2.12. At the core of Ubuntu is an attempt to restore pride in African identity by deliberately negating European
values and culture whilst emphasising African values and cultures to redress colonial stigmatisation of
blackness. True
2.13. Learner-centredness is central to pragmatist pedagogy. True
True and False questions from online tests
1. Aesthetics is one of the four major branches of philosophy. False
2. The deductive method indicates reasoning from the general to the specific. True
3. In philosophy, the purpose of rational self- examination is to develop arguments that correct or support beliefs
in ways that could be persuasive even to people with different backgrounds. True
4. Existentialism is more learner-centred than pragmatism. True
5. The correct definition of education is only limited to formal set-ups to the exclusion of informal or non-informal
set-ups. False
6. Ontology is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of realism, authenticity, certainty, or truth about the
universe. True
7. Axiology is a branch of philosophy that concerns with the correctness, accuracy, mistakes, and incorrectness.
True
8. Idealism believes that reality depends on the person’s mind, perception and opinions. True
9. Realism believes that what is real is what we see and can touch, not what we think to be true. True
[Link] believes that your future depends on your own choices, own selections, own options, own
preferences of your own life. True
11. Ujama later became a political party which emphasized a living in family hood, cooperative basis, sharing of
resources and respect for human dignity. False
[Link] is a division of philosophy concerning with knowledge, understanding, awareness and acquiring
of knowledge. True
[Link] means that a person is a person through other persons or because of others; therefore, each person must
own what she/he has. True
[Link] stressed that human beings must be treated with dignity and respect because democracy is from
Europe. False
[Link] is a branch of philosophy concerning the way of thinking, analysis, interpretation, decision making, and
opinions. True
[Link] was developed by Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia which argued that people reach a state of perfection
by being freed from imperfection life. True
[Link] is concerned with the question like: Is knowledge a personal or a cultural aspect? True
[Link] is the ideas and principles invented by a person or group of individuals about life’s existence,
authenticity, and world reality. True
[Link]- Centred Education emphasizes learners to be passively active, lively, and full of life in the classroom.
False
[Link] believes in experiment, trial, testing, research and examining as a source of true knowledge. True
[Link] of education is a field of education that is concerned with the nature and aims of educational
similarities worldwide. False
[Link] Sese Seko of Zaire developed a philosophy “Authenticity” to enlighten the African people to accept
their own way of life as Africans and to fake their originality. False
[Link] of Greece’s golden rule was: What you do not wish on yourself, do not do to others. False
[Link]/ Metaphysics believe that a child is a person without or with little knowledge which needs to be
trained in a way the teacher feels like, and the child has no say in the classroom. True
25. Axiology deals with questions like: What is gorgeous? Who is handsome? True
[Link] Buddha was an Indian philosopher between 563 – 498 BC, who advocated a religion called Buddhism.
False
27. Ontology deals with a question like: Is the sun really at the centre of our universe? True
28. Philosophy of education can be defined as a subject taught in schools and as a theoretical approach of a
country’s educational system. True
29. Ujama was developed by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania which requires people to work together. The main idea
was to fight for their political independence. False
30. Deductive logic is a reasoning that starts from a broad, wide aspect and workout the precise facts and applies it
to clarify a given condition. True
31. The African philosophies were not effectively recorded or written and cannot be traced anywhere due to such
shortcomings. False
32. The word Harambee means pulling together at once in one direction by excluding the whites as their colonial
time is over. False
33. Buddhism believes that people must lead a righteous life away from false impression. True
34. Confucius was an Indian Philosopher who stressed that people’s minds must be concentrated on positive things
and virtue. False
35. Leopold Senghor advocated an African philosophy “Negritude” which emphasised Africans to be obedient and
fulfill their duties as assigned to them by their colonial masters. False
