Social Science Education

Yemuna Sunny is a researcher and writer who has been engaged with social science education for nearly three decades. She has been part of the focus group for social science for the National Curriculum Framework, 2005, and been involved with textbook writing for the Kerala government. She was central to the evolution of the course 'Pedagogy of social studies' in the Masters of Arts in Education (Elementary) (MAEE) programme at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, which she taught for nine years. She has vast experience in writing for teachers, students, and curriculum developers. Her research and publications are based mostly on social geography, politics of knowledge, and critiques of curriculum and educational policies. Her recent writings, along with innovative cartographies, are being published as books for young readers. Simantini Dhuru is the Director of the Avehi Abacus Project, Mumbai – a unique educational initiative devoted to strengthening and transforming public education. She has played a key role in policy-making and curriculum development bodies at state and national levels (particularly actively contributing her experiences and insights in the capacity of a member to the National Executive Committee for Sarva Shikha Abhiyan, NCERT and Maharashtra SCERT). She is a visiting faculty with the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE, formerly CEIAR), where she developed and taught the integrated B.Ed. M.Ed. course, and the School of Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She also developed and taught a course in Indian Education at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. She is also a documentary filmmaker with national and international awards to her credit.

List of Figures. Series editors' preface. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Society, state, and consciousness 1..Studying society 2. State formation and social consciousness 3. The modern state and citizenship education Part 2: Democracy, education, technology 4. Approaches to teaching social sciences: Why, what, and how? 5. Technology, teaching, and the practice of social sciences Part 3: Challenges and possibilities 6. Can classrooms transform? 7. Teachers, society, and the classroom. Bibliography. Index.