It is conceived as

It helps young people something one does –

make informed and studying or examining
reasoned decisions for the social science topics
public good as citizens of a which include civic One of the primary goal of Social
culturally diverse, competence, history, Studies intends to develop critical,
It is an integrative program intended to reflective, responsible, productive,
democratic society in an governance, society and
develop civic competence among learners nature-loving, nationalist, and
independent world. culture among other
that means the ability to engage effectively humane citizens rooted in their
things.
with others in the public domain and to identity as Filipinos yet manifests
display solidarity and interests in solving the values and skills of a global
problems affecting the local and wider citizens.
PURPOSE
community and it provides coordinated,
systematic study drawing upon such GOAL
DEFINITION
disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, It helps learners to constructively
economics, geography, history, law, participate in the community and
philosophy, political science, psychology, in making decisions at all levels
religion and sociology, as well as from local to international to have
SOCIAL STUDIES
appropriate content from the humanities, a sense of responsibility as well as
mathematics and natural sciences. showing understanding and
respect for the shared values in
democratic principles.

THEMES
1. People environment and society APPROACHES AND
STRATEGIES
2. Time, continuity and change

3. Culture, responsibility and nationhood

4. Rights, responsibilities and citizenship

It is the thematic – chronological
5. Power, authority and governance and conceptual approach, discovery
approach, integrative,
6. Production, distribution and
interdisciplinary and
consumption
multidisciplinary approach.
7. Regional and global connections
 CONCEPTUALIZING
SOCIAL STUDIES

Framing a Theory for Social Studies

Foundation, a paper written by David
Warren Saxe that was published last 1992.

MYTHS
CONTINUOUS SPOTANEOUS HISTORY
EXISTENCE (CSE) THEORY FOUNDATION THEORY
BIG BANG THEORY OF
1916

In this theory, social

studies exist without any
antecedents and it holds
the idea that its past is not
relevant.
This is the centered on the
idea that social studies
suddenly appeared in
1916.
This is an extension or
deeper interpretation of
the Big Bang theory.
 Demystifying the Myths: Origin
of Social Studies
1880
1897
Saxe explained that, “As social
science moved from an area of
study to discrete field of research,
Edmund James, President of the
the term social education was
American Academy of Political
introduced as the means to
and Social Sciences was the first
activate social welfare in public
who used Social Studies as an
schools. In this context, social
element of school curricula. He
education was used as a generic
defined it as a general term for
term for socially centered school
sociologically-based citizenship
curricula.”
education and suggested to pull
together the social science for
use in the lower schools under
the umbrella of “social study”.
20TH CENTURY
Social education was redefined
1913 and narrowed to identify
special area of school curricula
to be devoted expressly to
social science and citizenship
concerns. This important shift
Clarence D. Kingsley launched
from the generic and all-
his Commission on the
encompassing term of social
Reorganization of Secondary
education for all school
School Subjects and suggested
curricula to a specific course of
six major areas of study that
social education among other
includes English, Social Science,
educational programs marks a
Natural Science, Physical
Training, Mathematics and symbolic beginning for social
Foreign Language. studies in schools.