STUDY OF PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES TEACHING AND ROLE OF TEACHER EDUCATORS AT THE UPPER PRIMARY LEVEL

Abstract

The study of human relationships is the core of social science education and it provides the basis for the study of History, Geography, Political Science and Economics. The present article focus on to analyses pedagogical practices in social science teaching in respect of NCF 2005.The article discussed about the existing pedagogy is used by social science teachers during teaching of social sciences at the upper primary level and how to improve teaching learning process. The article also highlighted NCF recommendations for the teaching and learning of social science education. It also suggests some pedagogical practices from the textbooks of social sciences as an example for the school teachers of social science. Finally the research article would provide certainly help in their classroom practices for the Social Science Teachers and INSET programme also.