EDUC 4373 Quiz #5
According to the text, law related education is characterized by four qualities that make it effective. Which of the following is one of those qualities?
A focus on critical thinking
Which of these activities would constitute negligence?
Allowing 6th grade boys to play football with 8th grade boys
Tort means?
Broken
Which element does not constitute liability?
Due Process
Law-related education (LRE) began in the late 1970's as part of a trend toward making social studies more relevant to the everyday needs of future citizens.
False
The American Bar Association developed the National Standards for Civics and Government.
False
The National Standards for Civics and Government avoid advocating instruction in the areas of American values and beliefs.
False
The National Standards for Civics and Government instruction do not cover the early elementary grades.
False
The basic concepts and core ideas of government, politics, and law are to sophisticated for young children.
False
The fifth organizing strand of the national standards of civics and government states: What are the roles of the citizen in the American democracy? Which of the following statements is a content standard question related to this organizing strand?
How can Americans participate in their government?
Standard of care refers to-
Responsibility of teachers with respect to age and activity
Proximate Cause
The distance between the teacher and a student accident
Government, politics, and law should hold a position of prominence in the social studies curriculum.
True
Law-related education is defined as: "education to equip non-lawyers with knowledge and skills pertaining to the law, the legal process and the legal system, and fundamental values upon which these are based."
True
Law-related education is supposed to help children learn to be critically responsive to legitimate authority.
True
Law-related education is supposed to help children learn to be responsibly opposed to illegitimate authority.
True
Political science traces its academic origins back to the period of Plato's Republic.
True
The sample lesson plan, Don't talk to me like that! deals most directly with which of the following organizing strands from the national standards?
What are some important beliefs Americans have about themselves and their government?
Which of the following is most certainly a major organizing strand for the content standards in civics and government?
What is government and what should it do?
Law-related education is supposed to move students away from perceiving law as restrictive, punitive, immutable, and beyond the control and understanding of people affected toward...
perceiving law as promotive, facilitative, comprehensible, and alterable
