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 ________________ 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 _______ 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)