Commission on Higher Education

Region VIII
SAMAR COLLEGE
COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES
City of Catbalogan

NAME : APRIL RONA A. CASTILLO

COURSE : MAED-EM
SUBJECT : EM 201 (10:30-1:30 Saturday)
INSTRUCTOR : LETECIA GUERRA PhD
SEMESTER : 2ND SEMESTER
S. Y. : 2021-2022
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

IN

FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION

1. Does the mental development of the learner affect the

curriculum? Explain why and cite some theories which will
justify your answer.
Answer:
Yes, the mental development affects the curriculum. For
example, psychology provides information about the
teaching learning process. It also seeks answers how a
curriculum will be organized to achieve students’
learning and optimum level and what amount if
information they can absorb in learning the various
contents of the curriculum. Mental development of the
learner our curriculum adjust into what is affecting our
learners in a learning process.
2. Conflicts and frustrations in learnings situations must be
recognized and provisions must be made for their resolution or
accommodation. Explain why?
Answer:
All individuals at one or other time in our day life have
conflicts and frustrations. Continuous feeling of chronic
conflict and frustration will have a negative impact on
our well-being. Frustration and unresolved needs and
desires cause great emotional happiness. It must be
recognized as resolution, whenever the cause of
disagreements and disputes at work, these skills can
help you resolve conflict in a constructive way.

3. The school educate its students to live in a particular society

at a particular time in its group of life. Why?
Answer:
School is a second home of its students. Students live in
every aspect of life which full of learning. Education is a
continuous learning, no one can stop learning every student. One
primary function of a school is to socialize children. This means
that, in the society of their peers, children learn acceptable
behavior, reciprocal relationships, norms of society, and
appropriate conflict resolution. Students learn a common
knowledge base, a common culture, and a common sense of
society’s official priorities.
4. Discuss comprehensively the statement “the culture shapes
pupils’ development and personality, and determines their
educational needs”.
Answer:
The culture shapes pupils’ development and personality,
and determines their educational needs. This statement says that
the pupil mold from its culture, in all society pupils’ need
educational just to be citizen in our own society. Culture molds
citizen to development its own personality. Our cultures affect in
many ways and it determines the development and personality
which nurtured to them. Our culture greatly influenced how we
see the world and how we try to understand and communicate to
each other.

5. Explain briefly the role of religion in a technological society.

Answer:
Although religion was not directly the cause of many
specific break thoughts, religion indirectly guided
technological advancement and a change in cultural thinking.
Religions’ role in influencing technology also expands into
realm of warfare and human violence. Religion and technology
answer in different needs. Religions brings meaning, comfort
and direction. Scientific-technological progress provide
information, convenience and efficiency. Religion answers
questions of the soul: who we are, why we are here, where we
came from, where we are going, how we find happiness.
6. What kind of diversity found in humans? Discuss briefly.
Answer:
These include but not limited to age, ethnicity, class,
gender, physical abilities/qualities, race, sexual
orientation. as well as religious status, gender
expression, educational background, geographical
location, income marital status, parental status, and
work experiences. Humans are different in many ways.
We are also diverse in terms of culture, what we believe
in, religions, and personal view in life that is why
arguments, misunderstanding and conflict as always
exist.