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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did deficiencies make Ayers feel?
(a) Inadequate.
(b) Happy.
(c) Fine.
(d) Ready for the challenge of learning.

2. How old was Chesa when Ayers began caring for him?
(a) 4 years old.
(b) 14 months old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 14 years old.

3. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Kevin Sweeney.
(c) Vivian Gussin Paley.
(d) Maxine Greene.

4. Ayers claims that what type of school tends be mechanistic and managerial, hierarchical, and bureaucratic?
(a) Ideal schools.
(b) Student-centered schools.
(c) Big schools.
(d) Small schools.

5. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The surplus model.
(b) The student-centered model.
(c) The deficit model.
(d) The teacher-centered model.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what is the often underutilized source of knowledge about youngsters?

2. Ayers suggests that what happens when teacher's begin to value a child's opinions and experiences?

3. According to Ayers, what is built when there is an engaged and active citizenry?

4. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?

5. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?

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