Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. In fulfillment of our duty towards social studies, which aims to achieve comprehensive and integrated growth in the learner's personality—mentally, psychologically, physically, and socially—to cultivate a righteous individual. This is achieved through the study of humanity in time and space across all its political, historical, geographical, cultural, and economic aspects, from the perspective of its relationship with its natural and social environments, and its impact on and by these environments. When constructing a social studies curriculum, we draw upon social sciences, deriving knowledge from its various components and formulating it, after a process of integration and overlap, into teaching-learning units built primarily on the nature, abilities, needs, desires, interests, and learning levels of the students.

In this humble effort, our book 'Social Studies: Its Nature and Methods of Teaching and Learning,' we were keen to address a range of topics that those interested in social studies should focus on. In the first chapter, we discuss the social studies curriculum in terms of its concept, comparing it with social sciences and social education, its elements, foundations, objectives, sources of derivation, and the philosophy of education in Jordan. In the second chapter, we cover the planning, evaluation, and development of the social studies curriculum, the justifications and importance of its planning, defining the characteristics of effective and ineffective curricula, the broad outlines of the social studies curriculum, and the characteristics and competencies of social studies teachers. The third chapter explores modern trends in teaching the social studies curriculum, such as creative education, environmental education, media education, sex education, and population education. The fourth chapter deals with teaching and learning aids in social studies. The fifth chapter covers teaching the conceptual basics of social studies: values, attitudes, and skills. In the sixth chapter, we present methods and strategies for those interested in teaching and learning social studies, such as inquiry, cooperative learning, role-playing, storytelling, discussion, dialogue, and strategies for organizing creative learning. The seventh chapter on assessing achievement in social studies discusses the definition of the assessment process, its characteristics, functions, importance, types, competencies of a social studies teacher as an evaluator, and the definition of authentic assessment as an educational innovation in the field. The eighth chapter provides those interested with the skills for effective lesson planning for social studies subjects, both for the semester and on a daily basis.

We hope that the topics of this book will be well-received by those interested in social studies and that it presents subjects closely related to the social studies curriculum, keeping pace with educational developments and meeting the needs of students and educators in this field. Any success in this effort is from Allah Almighty, and any shortcomings are inherent to human nature. We turn to you to benefit from your expertise in this area.

• ISBN: 9789957164959
• Weight: 0.750 kg
• Size: 17×24 cm
• Paper: White
• Pages: 320
• Year: 2014
• Type: Hardcover