The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of Social Problems

Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
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Delfín Ortega-Sánchez: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-4

Abstract: The most recent scientific literature on the treatment of social problems or controversial social questions in the social sciences classroom and their inclusion into curricula emphasizes the need to introduce students into large-scale social debates where different points of view exist, different interests are at stake, and where it is desirable that they construct their own opinions in that respect from a critical and reasoned perspective [...]

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Date: 2021
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