Format
There will be five questions. For each of four topics you will write a 130 to 150-word short essay in which you first clarify/describe the topic and then evaluate its significance and justify the evaluation with reasons and specific examples. Your essays must draw from and use the identified sources. The fifth question is a metaphor analysis and is common to everyone.
· Clarify and describe: What? Who? Where? When? How?
· Evaluate and justify: What is the significance, importance, or application? Give reasons,
evidence, and examples to justify the evaluation.
Here are twelve topics. Eight of the topics will be on the Test. You will pick four to write on.
1. The Cognitive Emotions (CE)
2. Steve Jobs and the Wood No One Sees (Jobs)
3. Id Like to Do Something Like That: The Craft and Art of Teaching (Do Something)
4. The two functions of having a philosophy of education (TPT, section I).
5. Epistemology and education, focus on the question how do we know what students know? (TPT,
section I)
6. Metaphysics and education, focus on the issue of the ethical nature of humans (TPT, section I)
7. The relation of higher and lower order thinking (Blooms taxonomy) in critical thinking (TPT,
section IV)
8. Getting serious about teaching critical thinking (Serious)
9. The affective dimensions of critical thinking (DCT, Serious, CE)
10. Postmans use of narratives/gods (End)
11. An example of what Postman calls a failed god (End)
12. The ambiguity of end in The End of Education (End)
A common question
Identify a metaphor for teachers and students (e.g., a gardener and the flowers) and perform the four- step metaphor analysis, identifying two strengths and two weaknesses. Use complete sentences, not to exceed 150 words.
