Courses

• Knowledge and Curricular Debates in Social Studies

  Elective

  This course will enable students to gain a critical perspective to deal with these issues and orient themselves towards meaningful intervention in practice.

  Sana Khan, Varadarajan Narayanan

• Pedagogy and Content Knowledge of History and Political Science

  Elective

  This course will deal with the pedagogy of Social Studies and the contribution of two academic disciplines, History and Political Science, respectively, to it at various stages of the curriculum, with a focus at lower elementary, upper elementary and high school levels.

  Malini Bhattacharjee, Narayana A

• Pedagogy and Content Knowledge of Sociology, Economics and Geography

  Elective

  This course provides students with the necessary knowledge of a few key areas of content knowledge and prepares them to teach these subjects effectively.

  Saswati Paik, Paaritosh Nath, Manoj Kumar

• Social Studies Teaching and Material Development

  Elective

  An introduction to the academic and curricular debates in the subjects that will also give them opportunities to translate their learnings into school contexts through curricular materials.