Teaching Social Science in Schools

This book explores the teaching of social science in Indian schools, and explains the rationale for a new approach that was introducted by India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in 2005. The book begins by explicating the larger purpose of the NCERT social science textbooks in the promotion of intellectual freedom and critical thinking. It emphasizes that the new generation of textbooks has reinvented teaching and organizing the social science disciplines. Teaching Social Science in Schools is a manual that explains the rationale for the new approach, and illustrates how the new textbooks can be used effectively.