TAILIEUCHUNG - Effectiveness of social studies teaching in schools

This study tries to explore the effectiveness of teaching of social studies at school level. The study tries to portray those criteria that are illustrated in different books by different writers. Findings have been drawn on the basis of the answers to the focused questions. Problems found in the field as perceived by the respondents are presented along with further areas of research. Social studies is the studies of human beings and human relation and the relation with environment. It is necessary to provide knowledge to the students about where they are living. It is becoming more important in the contemporary world. So, the policy makers and the stakeholders have to be serious to improve its teaching by finding suitable measures. | EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHING IN SCHOOLS Ram Kumar Ghimire ABSTRACT This study tries to explore the effectiveness of teaching of social studies at school level. The study tries to portray those criteria that are illustrated in different books by different writers. Findings have been drawn on the basis of the answers to the focused questions. Problems found in the field as perceived by the respondents are presented along with further areas of research. Social studies is the studies of human beings and human relation and the relation with environment. It is necessary to provide knowledge to the students about where they are living. It is becoming more important in the contemporary world. So the policy makers and the stakeholders have to be serious to improve its teaching by finding suitable measures. INTRODUCTION Education is regarded as a necessary means for the development of individual personality. It helps create tracks ahead in each and every sector of human possibilities so it is the supreme wealth of individual. Education opens the faculty of human mind as it is the backbone of socio-economic development of a nation. Human resource is the most important resource for the development of every sector of the physical world and it is education that prepares required human resources. Education can be defined as the process of giving training and instruction on new knowledge. There are two types of education system formal and informal. Formal education is provided in certain educational structure in fixed time frame and it is received grade wise. The history of formal education started from Athens when Plato opened Academy four century before Jesus Christ. And this system spread all over the world in the last two thousand years. In Nepal the history of formal education is not very long. It was started in1863 . but was not fully developed. The well planned and managed formal education system started only after 1955 . when the then government formed .

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• Social studies teaching in schools
• Social studies teaching
• Effectiveness of social studies teaching
• School level
• Social studies at school level