Which of the following sets of statements best represents the nature and…
2017
Which of the following sets of statements best represents the nature and objectives of teaching and learning?
(a) Teaching is like selling and learning is like buying.
(b) Teaching is a social act while learning is a personal act.
(c) Teaching implies learning whereas learning does not imply teaching.
(d) Teaching is a kind of delivery of knowledge while learning is like receiving it.
(e) Teaching is an interaction and is triadic in nature whereas learning is an active engagement in a subject domain.
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Answer: B. (b), (c) and (e) — ConceptTeaching is a purposeful social process that facilitates learning through interaction among the teacher, learner, and subject matter. Learning is the…
- A.
(a), (d) and (e)
- B.
(b), (c) and (e)
- C.
(a), (b) and (c)
- D.
(a), (b) and (d)
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Correct answer: B
Concept
Teaching is a purposeful social process that facilitates learning through interaction among the teacher, learner, and subject matter.
Learning is the learner's active construction of and engagement with knowledge; it can also occur without formal teaching.
Application
Statement (b) treats teaching as a social act and learning as a personal act; this distinguishes the interactional setting of teaching from the learner's internal process. Statement (c) says teaching presupposes an intended learning process, while learning can occur independently. Statement (e) describes teaching as a triadic interaction among teacher, learner, and subject matter, and learning as active engagement with a subject domain.
Contrast
(a), (d), and (e) mixes the interactional view with commercial-exchange and passive-transmission analogies; (a) and (d) reduce education to a transaction or one-way receipt of knowledge.
(a), (b), and (c) includes the social/personal and teaching-learning distinctions, but (a) reduces education to a seller-buyer exchange.
(a), (b), and (d) contains both the commercial-exchange and passive-transmission analogies, and it omits the triadic active-engagement view in (e).
Cross-check
The accepted statements are exactly (b), (c), and (e). Every other offered combination contains (a) or (d), so no second combination has the same conceptual basis.
Therefore, the appropriate set is (b), (c), and (e).