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CONTENTS Issue XV : August 2010 Social Science in Schools Section A: The Broad Picture Social Science in Schools -Andre Beteille Contested Terrain of School Social Science -Poonam Batra The ‘Defi cient’ Status of Social Science in India - Reasons and Corrective Measures -Rishikesh BS Education for Democracy – The Relevance of Social Science Education in Schools -Anjali Noronha Vexing Questions in Social Studies -Hriday Kant Dewan Social Sciences and the National Curriculum Framework -Indu Prasad Section B: Some Perspectives Learning Social Science - What is Right and Wrong? -Vimala Ramachandran Texts in School -Rashmi Paliwal & C N Subramaniam 7 10 18 23 28 36 40 43 Building Tomorrow’s Citizens: A Brief Survey of Social Science Education Across the Globe -Ann Horwitz Facing History and Ourselves: Studying History as a Moral Enterprise -Adam Strom & Martin Sleeper Maps and Politics Geography in Daily Life -M H Qureshi -Tapasya Saha Oh! Panchayat: Loose Lessons while Doing Social Science Text Books -Alex M George Geography Education for the 21st Century -Chandrashekhar Balachandran Issues in History Education: Perspectives from England and the USA -Liz Dawes Duraisingh The Dilemma and Challenge of School Economics -Arvind Sardana Section C: In the Classroom Review of New NCERT Social Science Textbooks -Sampoorna Biswas Taking Geography to Heart -Maria Athaide Vignettes - The Journey of a Class through Civilizations -Sita Natarajan 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 75 80 83 86
Does Neutral = Controversial? 90 -Mangala Nanda Section D: The Role of Assessment Assesment of Social Science in Schools - Our Experiences, Experiments and Learnings -Rashmi Paliwal Beyond Retention: Meaningful Assessment in Social Science -Jayashree Nambiar Quality vs. Quantity -Tapasya Saha Exams: The Need to Restore Credibility and Sanctity -R S Krishna Role of Projects, Field Work and Discovery in Assessment -Sriparna Section E: Personal Refl ections The Importance of Being Useless -Dhanwanti Nayak Social Science - A Springboard for Life -Richa Bhavanam Why the Social Sciences Never Pulled Me -Neeraja Raghavan The Lens that Social Science Conferred upon Me -Nidhi Tiwari 95 106 111 114 118 122 125 128 131 How History Shaped Our World -Gurmeet Kaur & Mariam Sahib The Social Sciences - How Scientifi c are they? -Manas Sarma Section F: Film Review and Resource Kit Beyond Dates and Fights! -Umashanker Periodi Resource Kit 134 136 138 141
Page 2 and 3: Editorial Team Aanchal Chomal, Gaut
Page 6 and 7: S E C T I O N A The Broad Picture
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asserting, for example, that the Ho
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11 Section B Maps and Politics M. H
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Maps as Creations of Politics Polit
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12 Section B Geography in Daily Lif
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a times we discussed and debated on
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13 Section B Oh! Panchayat: Loose L
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Lesson 3 Accidental Crossing of Bra
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14 Section B Geography Education fo
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Re-imagining geography Education in
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15 Section B Issues in History Educ
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initially believe that history is j
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In tune with the overall emphasis o
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at this end. Linking Textbooks, Tea
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17 Section C Review of new NCERT So
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in places and the monotony broken b
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were an attentive lot, eager to sha
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19 Section C Vignettes - The Journe
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I followed more or less the same me
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20 Section C Does Neutral = Controv
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also argue against the teacher pres
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S E C T I O N D The Role of Assessm
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4. 5. 6. Understand the role indivi
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compare different periods and place
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Our experiences with open-book exam
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Answer 4 Answer 5 Section D Assessm
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Equally important is the need to ma
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22 Section D Beyond Retention: Mean
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What was the contemporary political
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• What crops do you predict might
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also. So what is the objective of a
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24 Section D Exams: The Need to Res
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in. However in the process cognitiv
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25 Section D Role of Projects, Fiel
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which may be worth raising: Questio
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26 Section E The Importance of Bein
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which produce professionals who cer
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sides to any story. For example, th
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28 Section E Why the Social Science
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Alas! These were unrealised dreams:
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seeing another part of the world an
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30 Section E How History has Shaped
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31 Section E The Social Sciences—
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32 Section F Beyond Dates and Fight
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is not boring and does not tire one
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D. Some Useful Books • Samajik Ad
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