INTERPRETATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXTS: TEACHER AND THE CLASSROOM

Abstract

The given work is an attempt to analyze how social science textbooks based on NCF 2005 with the proposed epistemic shift in the approach of teaching of social sciences have been able to represent a scope for change. More specifically the given paper analyzes the interpretation 0f social science texts to bring in the importance of text book analyses with the purpose of exploring textbook as tool for change. It suggests how the interpretation of social science texts may provide a scope for understanding the changing role of textbooks in classroom teaching learning process. Keeping the proposed epistemic shift in mind, analysis of the concept of citizenship in the series of Social Political Life NCERT textbooks in comparison to colonial Civics, the given paper attempts to give new insights in the vision of pedagogy of Social Science.