Social Science Education

           Social Science Education

                            By Ajith.K.S

Social science involves the study of people and their interactions with each other, with their social and political institutions and with their environments. Accordingly, the social science education major includes a broad range of courses and subjects. Students are expected to demonstrate both breadth and depth of understanding in the academic disciplines that make up the social sciences.

Social Science Teacher Education

Social science examines various facets of human society, including psychology, sociology, political science, economics, anthropology and history. Read on to learn about social science teacher education programs and employment in the field.

Inside Social Science Teacher Education

Social science teachers help students become active participants in society and government. They lead discussions on current events, global culture and behavioral trends in contemporary society. In addition, social science educators instruct their students about history, geography and anthropology and how these fields have shaped different groups of people, resulting in cultural, linguistic and social differences. 

Social science is a category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. Social science as a whole has many branches. These social sciences include, but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, economics, history, human geography, jurisprudence, linguistics, political science, psychology, public health, and sociology. The term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 19th century. For a more detailed list of sub-disciplines within the social sciences see: Outline of social science.

Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those of the natural sciences as tools for understanding society, and so define science in its stricter modern sense. Interpretivist social scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense. In modern academic practice, researchers are often eclectic, using multiple methodologies (for instance, by combining both quantitative and qualitative research). The term "social research" has also acquired a degree of autonomy as practitioners from various disciplines share in its aims and methods.