Select the CORRECT statements : A. Teaching is an interaction between a better…
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Select the CORRECT statements :
A. Teaching is an interaction between a better knower and a lesser knower
B. Teaching must have corporal punishments
C. Teaching must be done by upper class and upper caste people
D. Teaching leads to insight development in both teacher and the learner
E. Everyone cannot be taught so learning must be for intelligent students only
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer: C. A and D Only — Concept: Teaching is a purposive, tri-polar process — teacher, learner and content — in which a participant who knows more interacts with a participant who…
- A.
A, B, C and D Only
- B.
B, C and E Only
- C.
A and D Only
- D.
A, B, C, D and E
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Correct answer: C
Concept: Teaching is a purposive, tri-polar process — teacher, learner and content — in which a participant who knows more interacts with a participant who knows less so that learning takes place. Two principles fix what teaching can and cannot be. It is reciprocal: the transaction reshapes the teacher's own understanding as well as the learner's. It is democratic and non-coercive: educability is universal, so neither the right to teach nor the right to be taught may rest on ascriptive status or on force.
Application: Each listed statement is tested against those two principles.
Statement | Status | Reason |
|---|---|---|
A | Correct | This is the standard definition of teaching as an interactive process between a more knowledgeable participant and a less knowledgeable one; what is asserted is the interaction itself, not a one-way transfer. |
B | Incorrect | In elementary education, Section 17 of the Right to Education Act, 2009 prohibits physical punishment of children. More generally, corporal punishment is coercive rather than a defining requirement of teaching; it may suppress behaviour without producing understanding. |
C | Incorrect | Teaching competence is professional and acquired, not ascriptive. Restricting who may teach by class or caste contradicts the constitutional guarantee of equality and the inclusive basis of education. |
D | Correct | Teaching is reciprocal: while planning, questioning and reflecting on a lesson the teacher restructures their own understanding, so insight develops on both sides of the transaction. |
E | Incorrect | Every learner is educable. Individual differences are met with differentiated instruction, remediation and varied pacing, not by excluding learners judged less intelligent. |
Cross-check: The statements that survive are exactly those that describe the teaching transaction itself; the ones that fail each add a coercive or exclusionary condition that the transaction never requires. Only statements A and D survive, and no larger or different surviving set exists, so the selection to make is "A and D Only".
Answer: A and D Only.