Teaching Social Studies and the New Curriculum

Contents: 1. Place of social studies in the elementary school curriculum. 2. New developments in social studies instruction. 3. Planning the social studies programme. 4. The development of social studies units. 5. Individualizing instruction in social studies. 6. Use of instructional materials. 7. Teaching children the use of globes and maps. 8. How to interpret graphs, charts and cartoons. 9. Reading social studies materials. 10. Geographical elements in the social studies programme. 11. Historical elements in the social studies. 12. Teaching of current affairs.

From the preface: "The book "Teaching Social Studies and the New Curriculum" had its beginning to study the curriculum revision movement in social studies at elementary, secondary and senior secondary levels.

The curriculum must have some basic as well as developmental ideas both subjective and methodological to form the core. What is taught at these levels and that the job of a curriculum builder is to be structural content of the curriculum.

The book integrates discussion of educational goals and nature of social studies with an idea of making curriculum for various levels of education. The purpose of social studies education is that what we choose to teach and the way we teach should reflect our society.

The book is a supportive text for curriculum design for social studies. However, it should also be useful for in service training programme, as a reference for social studies teachers and as a resource book for educators, education planners and the policy makers."