Social Science Education in Indian Schools.
Social Science is a category of academic disciplines that include the sturdy of History, geography, economics. political science and sociology. When compared with other disciplines such as languages and mathematics, etc., it is one of the young disciplines taught in formal education system. This makes the social science an evolutionary discipline and continues to get its share of controversies. Social science produces new concepts and methods of investigation continuously making it a vibrant one. According to Max Weber, as analytical tools, social science concepts help to understand the 'meaning of and causal relations between elements of social and cultural life' (Root, 1994, p.47). In school systems, children are expected to understand basic social science concepts. This helps them, later as citizens and as members of the society. To comprehend socio-economic and political issues and events that shaped the world. Social science as a school discipline carries the responsibilit...