General aims of teaching social science
General aims of Teaching Social Science 1. Close acquaintance with the environment. Social science helps children to acquaint with the past and present social, cultural and geographical environment and to gain insights. 2. Interest in socio-economic institutions. Social science in schools helps students to take a keen interest in the ways in which various socio-economic and political Institutions assist and regulate human life. 3. Appreciation of cultural heritage. The teaching of social science enables children to appreciate the rich cultural heritage of one's nation as well as of other nations. 4. Shifting of material. The teaching of social science enables students to recognise and get rid of what is undesirable and antiquated especially in the context of social change. 5. Development of broadmindedness. Social science aims at ensuring that narrow, parochial, and selfish tendencies are not allowed to grow in learners and that they become tolerant and broadminded....