Teaching of Social Studies

The place of teacher in India is very respectable and it reflects the socio cultural ethos of society and not people can rise above the level of its. Since the dawn of Independence, India has been facing a lot of problems almost in every walk of life and that is related with the socio-cultural and economic. The field of social study has also been polluted with those significant problems. After independence India has got the British system of Education for the development of country and country men but we should not forget that British system of Education having its own structure and functions in heritage and a concerted efforts has been made since, then to utilize that heritage in order to achieve comparable results by democratic means; though we pledged in 1950 on the 26th day of January. We could not fulfill this pledge to this date? The simple answer is no. Because we never try to understand the democratic and reason is that we do not educate out nation people. Only we give this responsibly to the teachers but and the main problem was related with our social-cultural relation in the country. The goal of life is to get good and effective education related with our social and cultural activates for which we have need good and effective social study teachers. But now day’s good teachers of social study are not available in the Indian schools. One of the main reasons is that in planning the syllabus of social study at secondary and higher secondary school level. The social study teacher must know the teaching acts and acquire teaching skills and classroom teaching rules with teaching theories. The present book is the outcome of the author an it is a humble effort to present the problems of social study teacher and related to their classroom-teaching programs, as author has perceived. The innovations related lesson plan, teaching lesson plan, classroom skills and teaching concepts are also included in this book for students as well as for teachers of social study. The readers of social study field will decide its utility, if this volume may give any benefit to them. It will be this success. Almost ever aspect of social science included problems of history; economics, geography and sociology are covered in this book. The book consists of fourteen chapters. The author has suggested and given some ideas to solve the social study teacher’s problems. He has also suggested that only if there are a large number of idealistic trained teachers and education workers devoted to the cause then the country can solve the sociological problems of each school that are situated in villages and cities. The author is highly thankful for the publisher to publish this book named-“Teaching of Social Studies”.