B.Ed (H) 4th

Course Title: Teaching Of Social Studies

Course Code: EDU-211

Credit Hours:3 (3-0)

Instructor:  Dr Zunaira Fatima

DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES

Add Description This course enables prospective teachers to reflect on the purpose of teaching social studies and help shape their approach to teaching the subject. It prepares them to integrate knowledge with skills, values and attitudes, essential for democratic citizenship, in their teaching, and to encourage informed and responsible civic action.

The teachers of social studies have an added responsibility for helping students understand their world, facilitating the development of a wide range of skills and competencies to enable them to become critical consumers of knowledge, and encouraging them to participate as informed, caring and peace loving citizens to improve the society. The task of the social studies teacher becomes more challenging given the dynamic nature of society and subject matter, the nature and needs of the learners and wide varieties of learning contexts.

This course will acquaint teachers with an understanding of the key concepts of the various disciplines comprising the Social Studies. This will broaden their understanding of recurring social issues; help them to understand the controversies (current and persistent local, national and global issues). They will also become familiar with the use of a range of skills such as information gathering and processing, map reading, thinking, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. This will help promote students’ growth as individuals and as citizens of Pakistan and of an increasingly interdependent world. This course will encourage prospective teachers to further develop their instructional repertoire and assessment practices in order to improve the teaching and assessment of concepts, skills, values and social actions,

This course will prepare prospective teachers to provide for their students activity-rich opportunities for inquiry, cooperative learning, discussion, role play, etc. It will equip prospective teachers with strategies to deal with controversial issues in their classrooms.  Hence, this course combines content with different teaching strategies to make the teaching and learning of social studies a valuable and interesting educational experience for both teachers and students.

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

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·       Review/reflect on the nature, methods, key concepts and skills in the disciplines comprising the Social Studies (history, geography, political science, citizenship, anthropology, sociology, economics) and to deepen their understanding regarding their use to educate for informed, responsible and active citizenship

·       Develop an understanding of current, persistent and controversial issues (global warming, cultural diversity, universality of human rights) and acquire the skills to teach controversial issues in their classrooms

·       Recognize diversity and differences as assets and learn to evaluate different perspectives and biases