Modern Trends in Education Set 2

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This set of Issues and Trends in Contemporary Indian Education Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern Trends in Education Set 2

Q1 | Schools have a significant role in imparting sex education to
  • Adolescents
  • kids
  • Adults
  • Parents
Q2 | Poverty, inflation, housing shortage, mounting illiteracy is the result of
  • Over-population
  • Lack of human resources
  • Lack of natural resources
  • ignorance
Q3 | To develop an understanding of the influence of population trends on the various aspectsof human life, political, social, cultural and economic is the aim and objective of
  • Value-oriented education
  • Sex education
  • Family education
  • Population education
Q4 | ___________________recommended that Population education should be included inthe existing curriculum of schools and colleges .
  • UNESCO (1984)
  • National Seminar on Population Education (1969)
  • World Population Plan of Action (1974)
  • National Policy on Education (1986)
Q5 | The first country to address “ Population Education” was
  • Germany
  • India
  • England
  • Sweeden
Q6 | _______________________ coined the term “Population Education”
  • Pof.Sloan R. Wayland
  • Viederman
  • Gopal Rao
  • Fordham
Q7 | National Population Education Project ( NPEP) was launched for institutionalizing__________________________in schools
  • Sex education
  • Value-oriented education
  • Population education
  • Family planning education
Q8 | To promote population education, a comprehensive programme of “National PopulationPolicy” was evolved by the Government of India in
  • April, 1976
  • April, 1986
  • April, 1978
  • April, 1988
Q9 | In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations recommended that__________would be internationally observed as “World Population Day”
  • 10th July
  • 11th July
  • 15th July
  • 21st July
Q10 | The Government of India launched a national pogramme known as___________________________________________ designed to introduce population education along with the formal education system
  • National Adult Education Programme
  • National Population Education Project
  • National Family Panning Ptrogramme
  • National Literacy Mission
Q11 | To enable the students to extend their understanding, attitudes, perspectives and practices related population matters, issues and problems is the ultimate goal of
  • Social education
  • Value-oriented education
  • Adult education
  • Population education
Q12 | The first “National Population Policy(1969)” is essentially related to
  • Human Resource Development
  • Family planning
  • Birth Control policy
  • Adolescence education
Q13 | The first national seminar on “Population Education” (1969) jointly organized by theMinistry of Education and Health &Family Planning was held in
  • Delhi
  • Hyderabad
  • Bombay
  • Bangalore
Q14 | “An educational programme which provides for a study of the population phenomenon so as to enable the students to take rational decisions towards problems arising out of the rapid growth”. This definition of population education is given by
  • UNESCO (1970)
  • Gopal Rao
  • Viederman
  • Massails
Q15 | _________________ is essential to prevent the young people from sexual abuses and harassment, exploitation, early pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS
  • Value education
  • Population education
  • Family Panning
  • Sex education
Q16 | ____________________ refers to planned educational actions aimed at the developmentof proper attitudes, values, emotions and behaviour pattern of the learners.
  • Population Education
  • SUPW
  • Sex Education
  • Value Education
Q17 | Who defined values as ‘enduring belief, a specific mode of conduct and state existencealong a continuum of relative importance.’
  • John Dewey
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Viederman
  • Rokeach
Q18 | According to __________________________ duty is the supreme concern and no otherworldly matters.
  • Hedonistic Theory
  • Intuitional Theory
  • Bigourist Theory
  • Idealistic Theory
Q19 | Who said education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
  • Swami Vivekananda
  • Gandhi
  • Tagore
  • Radhakrishnan
Q20 | In which year the NCERT organized seminar on work-oriented education andrecommended Gandhian values at the primary stage of education.
  • 1970
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1980
Q21 | “If we exclude spiritual training in our institutions, we would be untrue to our wholehistorical development” given by
  • Kothari Commission (1964-66)
  • Radhakrishnan Commission (1948)
  • National Policy on Education (1986)
  • Sri Prakasa Committee on Religious and Moral Instruction
Q22 | ________________ stressed the role of education in combating obscurantism, religiousfanaticism, exploitation and injustice as well as the inculcation of values.
  • Kothari Commission (1964-66)
  • National Policy on Education (1986)
  • Programme of action NPE (1992)
  • Radhakrishnan Commission (1948)
Q23 | To develop in child the habits of truthfulness, tidiness, punctuality, honesty etc. and to make them liberal in thought and practice are the aim and objectives of
  • Sex Education
  • Work Experience
  • Population
  • Value-oriented Education
Q24 | Education that is concerned with the transformation of individual personality
  • Sex Education
  • Work Experience
  • Value Education
  • Population Education
Q25 | Education without character leads to criminality; educated persons have wider opportunities in crime and that too committing them more efficiently and technically
  • Gandhiji
  • R. Satya Raju
  • Shankar Dayal Sharma
  • Swami Vivekananda