CONSTRUCTIVISM: AND IT'S APPLICATION IN TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Education is an important aspect of social, economic, political and cultural life of an individual. Thus fruitful learning cannot be achieved in isolation. The students of secondary level are very smart and always thirst for some new ways of learning. Teaching means not merely transfer of information to students. Instead of this the students themselves must construct and reconstruct learning/knowledge on the basis of their previous knowledge General belief about social science curriculum is ,it is boring and non-utility subject than natural sciences and social science subjects are text centered and theoretical in nature. . But unfortunately many of the social science teacher’s follows old traditional methods like lecture method, memorization of facts and incidents etc. Therefore the objective of present study is to provide an intense look into constructivist theory and its need in teaching social studies at secondary level. Because social studies subject is equally important like other sciences. Hence the teaching learning approach in social science needs to be revitalized. Constructivism is a dynamic approach and that could be applied in a classroom by the teacher to make social studies teaching and learning more effective. The study therefore concluded that teachers need to reflect on their practice in order to apply these ideas to their work and the constructivist teacher’s role is work like a facilitator in the teaching learning process and encourage the students to construct the knowledge themselves