Foundation of Social Studies

The primary purpose of social studies is to help students develop the ability to make informed decisions as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.

• Knowledge and Continuous Learning

• Social Awareness and Critical Judgement as well as Critical Thinking

• Social Understanding

• Integrating ideas

The Subject also includes the study of interrelationship among people, as well as the relationship between them and their environment.

• integrating ideas

• Social Understanding

• Social Awareness and Critical Judgement as well as Critical thinking

• Knowledge and Continuous Learning

Social Studies involve a number of subjects including history, geography and economics.

• Knowledge and Continuous Learning

• Social Awareness and Critical Judgement as well as Critical Thinking

• Social Understanding

• Integrating Ideas

Social studies awareness in students of the diversity and interdependence of the world and help them to recognize the challenges and benefits of living in a world with multiple and ideologies.

• Knowledge and Continuous learning

• Social Awareness and Critical judgement as well as Critical Thinking

• Social Understanding

• Integrating Ideas

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The foregoing values of the subject can be said to be (a)   for the subject if well taught.

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It is a discipline that__________ as part of the _________ of development and growth.

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The number of tertiary institutions offering Social Studies is (a)   with more focus on teacher preparation unlike at the foundational stage.

defined concepts as mental construction invented by human actors to describe the characteristics that are common to a number of experiences.

• Fraenkel (1973)

• Mehlinger (1981)

• Lawal (2017)

• Shanker (1996)

also defines a concept as the term used to group objects, events and processes which share essential characteristics.

• Lawal (2017)

• Shanker (1996)

• Mehlinger (1981)

• Rodney (1972)

______ further describes concepts to be complex and abstract images and ideas, usually expressed as a single word, which concentrates and symbolizes a large amount of information and generalization considered to be important in a given field of study.

• Fraenkel (1973)

• ASESP (1994)

• Lawal (2017)

• Zantman (1991)