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Pragmatics is the study of...?

(A) Linguistic meaning

(B) Intended meaning

(C) Denotative meaning

(D) Literal meaning

✅ Correct Answer: Intended meaning

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The term “Pragmatism” is taken from a Greek word ‘Pragma’ which means__________...?

(A) Movement

(B) Action

(C) Reality

(D) None of these

✅ Correct Answer: Action

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The term “Pragmatism” is taken from a Greek word. What is the meaning of this word___________...?

(A) Active

(B) Efficient

(C) Practical utility

(D) All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: All of the above

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The term “Pragmatism” is derived from which language___________...?

(A) Latin

(B) Roman

(C) Greek

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Greek

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Pragmatics is comes under__________ assessment...?

(A) Diagnosis

(B) Oral

(C) Formative

(D) Placement

✅ Correct Answer: Oral

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Pragmatism stress on the following phenomenons____________...?

(A) Integration of knowledge

(B) Relating the curriculum to real life situations

(C) Project method of teaching

(D) All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: All of the above

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Pragmatism uses which methods to solve the educational problems___________...?

(A) Project method

(B) Lecture method

(C) Recitation method

(D) None of these

✅ Correct Answer: Project method

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The term pragmatism derives it’s origin from...?

(A) Greek

(B) Latin

(C) English

(D) Spanish

✅ Correct Answer: Greek

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The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about ____...?

(A) Obedience

(B) Virtue

(C) Life and growth

(D) Shaping good citizens

✅ Correct Answer: Life and growth

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In Pragmatism, the field of Agriculture for boys and what is the specific prescribed field for girls___________...?

(A) Home-economics

(B) Physics

(C) Mathematics

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Home-economics

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Pragmatic curriculum is____________...?

(A) Utilitarian

(B) Idealist

(C) Aesthetics

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Utilitarian

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Who is called the pioneer ‘Instrumentalist’ or ‘Pragmatist’ in the field of education in India________________________...?

(A) Socrates

(B) Imam Al-Ghazali

(C) Aristotle

(D) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

✅ Correct Answer: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

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Education, according to the Pragmatist is...?

(A) Exclusively pupil-oriented

(B) Exclusively purposive

(C) Wholly society-oriented

(D) Wholly interdisciplinary

✅ Correct Answer: Exclusively purposive

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Who developed pragmatic philosophy and applied it to education...?

(A) Plato

(B) Piaget

(C) Rousseau

(D) Dewey

✅ Correct Answer: Dewey

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Who defines Pragmatic philosophy in these words: “I affirm that the term ‘Pragmatic’ means only the rules of referring all thinking, all reflective consideration, to consequence for final meaning and test___________”...?

(A) John Dewey

(B) William James

(C) Kilpatrick

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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Who among the following propounded pragmatism in education...?

(A) Plato

(B) Russell

(C) Rousseau

(D) John Dewey

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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For instruction pragmatist teacher tend to rely heavily on...?

(A) Lecture and assignment method

(B) Problem solving and project method

(C) Book reading and notebook writing

(D) Individual creative activities

✅ Correct Answer: Problem solving and project method

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Pragmatism also advocated _________through participation in cooperative activities in the school society...?

(A) Self-discipline

(B) Social-discipline

(C) Moral-discipline

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Social-discipline

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In stating the purpose of education, pragmatists would probably stress the needs for...?

(A) Instruction in the classes

(B) Experience in democratic social processes

(C) Instruction in the process of scientific investigation

(D) Individual learning experiences

✅ Correct Answer: Experience in democratic social processes

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Pragmatism deals all round development of an individual by physically, mentally, social, morally and____________...?

(A) Aesthetically

(B) Figuratively

(C) Naturally

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Aesthetically

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“Educational Psychology is the systematic study of the educational growth and development of a child”, who defined Educational psychology in these words__________...?

(A) Stephen

(B) Skinner

(C) Pestalozzi

(D) Rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: Stephen

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Who among the following is not a follower of Pragmatic Philosophy...?

(A) Kilpatrick

(B) Pestalozzi

(C) John Dewey

(D) William James

✅ Correct Answer: Pestalozzi

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The Philosophy of Pragmatism is concerned with___________...?

(A) The change as reality

(B) The change as Ideals

(C) The change as nature

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: The change as reality

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Pragmatism was initially introduced by whom___________...?

(A) William James

(B) John Dewey

(C) S. Kilpatrick

(D) None of the these

✅ Correct Answer: William James

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An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through___________...?

(A) experience

(B) practice

(C) knowledge

(D) observations

✅ Correct Answer: experience

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According to Pragmatism, the powerful and cooperative activities create virtues in children____________...?

(A) Mutual respect, self-control

(B) Imitative and tolerance

(C) Originality

(D) All of these

✅ Correct Answer: All of these

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Pragmatism is an__________...?

(A) Indian philosophy

(B) Asian philosophy

(C) American philosophy

(D) All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: American philosophy

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Pragmatic Educational Philosophy was developed by which American philosopher________________________...?

(A) Helen Parkhurst

(B) Walt Whitman

(C) Abraham Lincoln

(D) John Dewey

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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Pragmatism is an extremely___________...?

(A) Socialist

(B) Utilitarian

(C) Political

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Utilitarian

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Problematic structures that allowed many well-known ___________figures...?

(A) Philosophical

(B) Psychological

(C) Historical

(D) All

✅ Correct Answer: Historical

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Pragmatism rests on the ideas of...?

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(C) Dewey

(D) Rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: Dewey

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An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through...?

(A) Experience

(B) Practice

(C) Knowledge Observations

(D) None

✅ Correct Answer: Experience

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What is the name of the modern philosopher who developed Pragmatic philosophy and applied it to education____________...?

(A) Montessori

(B) Froebel

(C) Aristotle

(D) John Dewey

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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In Pragmatic philosophy of education a teacher is as___________...?

(A) Facilitator

(B) Contributor

(C) Scientist

(D) A,B, & C

✅ Correct Answer: Facilitator

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What is the chief function of a Pragmatic Teacher in learning process___________...?

(A) To create real life situation

(B) To provide lectures

(C) Giving notes and other helpful materials

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: To create real life situation

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The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about___________...?

(A) obedience

(B) virtue

(C) life and growth

(D) shaping good citizens

✅ Correct Answer: life and growth

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The Philosophy of Pragmatism puts more emphasize on the____________...?

(A) Importance of activity

(B) Reality still in the making

(C) Personal and social adjustment

(D) All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: All of the above

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Who is the founder of Pragmatic Philosophy...?

(A) Immanuel Kant

(B) Friedrich Nietzsche

(C) John Locke

(D) Charles Sanders Peirce

✅ Correct Answer: Charles Sanders Peirce

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The word ‘Pragmatism’ is derived from the word ‘Pragma’ which means...?

(A) Action

(B) Experience

(C) Natural

(D) Ideal

✅ Correct Answer: Action

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The idea of teaching the whole child in the “philosophy of pragmatism in education” means teaching students to be good_________...?

(A) learners

(B) thinkers

(C) scientists

(D) citizens

✅ Correct Answer: citizens

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Who presented the Pragmatic Educational Philosophy by using it as the foundation for children’s learning activities and projects________________________...?

(A) John Dewey

(B) J. J. Rousseau

(C) Helen Parkhurst

(D) Maria Montessori

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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The term pragmatism is also sometimes called as...?

(A) Idealism

(B) Realism

(C) Progressivism

(D) Humanism

✅ Correct Answer: Progressivism

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Pragmatism was introduced by...?

(A) William James

(B) Aristotle

(C) Plato

(D) Piaget

✅ Correct Answer: William James

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Structuralism is tried to provide a systematic study of the mind through the study of its_________...?

(A) Structure

(B) Whole story

(C) Complete in its magnitude

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Structure

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John Dewey wa the director of which school from 1896 to 1904 where he tested his Pragmatic Educational Philosophy__________________________...?

(A) F. Froebel

(B) John Dewey

(C) Pestalozzi

(D) Plato

✅ Correct Answer: John Dewey

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What Pragmatics concepts refers to the implied meaning of an afference...?

(A) Implications

(B) Presupposition

(C) Inferences

(D) Illocutionary forces

✅ Correct Answer: Inferences

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Philosophy of Pragmatism is related to which country___________...?

(A) Africa

(B) United Kingdom

(C) America

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: America

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Pragmatism doesn’t favor for___________...?

(A) Fixing curriculum in advance

(B) All round development of an individual

(C) Laboratory empirical knowledge

(D) None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: Fixing curriculum in advance

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The idea of teaching the whole child in the “philosophy of pragmatism in education” means teaching students to be good...?

(A) Learners

(B) Thinkers

(C) Citizens

(D) None of them

✅ Correct Answer: Citizens

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Pragmatism stress on__________...?

(A) The principle of utility

(B) Importance of man power

(C) Faith in flexibility

(D) All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: All of the above

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