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A significant aim of Social Science education is to build what type of citizenship?

AAutocratic and obedient citizenship.

BPassive and uninformed citizenship.

CIntelligent democratic citizenship.

DRevolutionary and disruptive citizenship.

Answer:

C. Intelligent democratic citizenship.

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Aims of Teaching Social Science

  • To acquaint the child with his past and present geographical and social environment.

  • To enable children to appreciate India's rich cultural heritage as also to recognize and get rid of what is undesirable and antiquated especially in the context of social change.

  • To build social competence; Man is a social being and as such all education meant for his all round development is social education.

  • To build intelligent democratic citizenship.

  • To help the child acquire the right attitudes knowledge understanding and competence which he will need in the interaction with social and physical environment.

  • To help the child gain insight into spiritual economic and political values as forces in human behaviour and human relationships.

  • To provide a pattern and experience of study that will serve as a foundation for specialization later.

  • To develop desirable qualities for an all round development of a rich personality.

  • To foster attitude towards knowledge, life and learning relevant to the present.

  • To promote understanding of all history and all human experience as a process of change and development.

  • To give a sense of belonging; It is one of the important aims of social science studies to give the pupils a sense of belonging to a place to a community to a nation and to the world.

  • To enable the pupils to use their leisure properly, it is one of the important aims of social science to afford opportunity to young people to develop interests that will result in a creative use of their leisure.

  • To help resolve our contemporary social and individual problems, one of the most significant aims of social science is to help develop mature judgments on immediate social issues trends and prospects in the fields of regional politics commerce, industry, and national and international affairs. These will help in resolving our contemporary social and individual problems.

  • To foster national feelings, a special aim of teaching social science is to create a desire in the pupils to perpetuate those principles of justice and humanity that control the life of a nation.

  • To promote international understanding.


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