Teaching Of Social Science

PREFACE

Social Sciences has become an integral part of school education. Significance of this subjepulsory subjcognized by the fact that social sciences is taught as a compulsory subject at school level through social sworld. Social Sciences helps the student to become a responsiblout the being and develop a concrete worldview for himself. Thus, it helps in the beiolesome development of the child, which is the primary aim of education.

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The present book “Teaching of Social Sciences” has been written keeping in view the needs of the students doing graduate degree in education i.e. B.Ed. The present book covers the syllabus of B.Ed. of all the universities of Haryana. Syllabus of various other universities of India has also been included in it.

As the present book is written primarily for B.Ed. students, utmost care has been taken to make it simple, brief and interesting. Various methods, concepts, skills etc. have been explained with suitable illustrations examples. Diagrams, maps and figures have been given, wherever necessary. Questions are given at the end of each chapter for revision, exercise and practice.

Works of various educationists and scholars have been consulted and quoted while writing this book. We are grateful to them.

We also feel indebted to our friends, colleagues, students and family members for their help, support and cooperation in writing this book.

A special note of thanks is due to our publisher S. Harvinder Singh Randhawa, Prop. Twenty First Century Publication, Patiala and his dedicated team for bringing this book to its final shape.

We hope that the book will be very helpful for students as well as the teachers. Suggestions, if any, for the improvement of the book will be thankfully acknowledged.

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