Pedagogy of School Subject Social Sciences Sharma, R.A.

"Social Sciences" as a term is comparatively new in Indian education; it is meant to cover the ground traditionally associated with History, Geography, Economics, Civics etc. If the teaching of these separate subjects only imparts miscellaneous and unrelated information and does not throw any light on, or provide insight into, social conditions and problems or create the desire to improve the existing stage of things, their educative significance will be negligible. This whole group of studies has, therefore, to be viewed as a compact whole whose objective is to adjust the students to their social environment-which includes family, community, State and Nation, so that they may be able to understand how the society has come to its present form and interpret intelligently the matrix of social forces and movements in the midst of which they are living. They help the student to discover and explain how this adjustment has taken place in the past and how it is taking place today. Through them, the students should be able to acquire not only the knowledge but the attitudes and values which are sure to give the students not only a sense of patriotism and appreciation of national heritage, but also a keen and lively sense of obvious fact that these are but the formulation of aims which have to be achieved; their translation into curricular terms will require careful thought and patient research." The content of present book in your hand deals with the latest curriculum of the two-year B Ed course in different universities. I am thankful to the authors and publishers whose works have been consulted and used in preparing the manuscript of this book. The author is indebted of all those sources which have been consulted directly and indirectly in preparing the book. The suggestions for further improvement are always welcome and an endeavor will be made to incorporate them in future editions.

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