SOCIAL SCIENCE

SOCIAL SCIENCE

I.           DEFINITION

  SOCIAL SCIENCE  is a comprehensive, structured learning by increasing or connecting materials from various disciplines of social sciences and more with real life in the community, experience, problems, needs and projected to a future life, learning activities give priority to the active role of students through the process of inquiry learning. Learning not only give priority to knowledge alone, but is able to shape the character and skills that are useful in daily life.

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II.           OBJECTIVE

The main objective of social science is to help youth generation develop his skills and knowledge rational decisions as citizens culturally diverse, democratic societies in the world are interdependent (NCSS, 2008: 2).

According Waterwroth, (2007: 5) Says that the purpose of social studies (IPS) is to prepare students to become good citizens in their life in society, where it is explicitly he says "to prepare students to be well-functioning citizens in a democratic society"

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