Activity No.

4 REFLECTION Paper on Knowledge, skills and attitudes and values

Many school subjects comprise knowledge and skills, but social studies emphasize
attitudes and values, too. How are they different and why are both important?

Skills is the ability to do something well; expertise, a particular ability, or

awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Knowledge are
facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education, the
theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Knowledge is under cognitive domain
while skills is under psychomotor domain. Attitudes and values. Because values guide
one's decisions, attitude and values have an impact on one's future. They are intimately
tied to one's sense of agency, or their conviction that they have the power to make a
difference in their own lives as well as the lives of those around them. They are under
the affective domain. Though knowledge and skills and attitudes and values are
developing under different domains. They are both important for the holistic or total
development of students. Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values are necessary
for students to live within the defense of human rights and towards a greater
understanding of human rights concerns, they need to have information and
comprehension of specific issues as well as a few critical skills.   Additionally, they must
learn and put into practice acceptable attitudes and values.