CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -He asserts that the “foundations” of social studies originated in Great Britain during the 1820s and quickly moved to the United States (3). Social studies emerged as an attempt to use education as a vehicle to promote social welfare, and its subsequent development was influenced both by Americans and others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social studies was first introduced and developed in the United States of America, after the Second World War in the year 1945, and later spread to Europe. After the word wars, it was identified as an important course relevant to the understanding of man, his environment, and his problems.

Detailed explanation-3: -To teach social studies in the United States, one must obtain a valid teaching certification to teach in that given state and a valid subject specific certification in social studies. The social studies certification process focuses on the core areas: history, geography, economics, civics and political science.

Detailed explanation-4: -In most American classrooms, social studies is an amalgam of disciplines largely dominated by history, but depending on the curriculum adopted by a district or school, it also may incorporate geography, political science, economics, religious studies, psychology, sociology, and archaeology.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sociology was established by Comte in 1838. He had earlier used the term “social physics", but that had subsequently been appropriated by others, most notably the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet. Comte endeavoured to unify history, psychology and economics through the scientific understanding of the social realm.