Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Block - 1 : Introduction to Disciplines and School
Subjects
Unit - 6 : Nature and Content of School Subjects
Unit Structure
1.6.1.
Learning Objectives
1.6.2.
Introduction
1.6.3.
Learning Points and Learning Activities
1.6.3.1. Major disciplines with discipline specific processes to acquire knowledge
Check Your Progress-1
1.6.3.2. Content of School Subjects: Languages, Math and Social Science and
Science,
Check Your Progress-2
1.6.3.3. Content of School Subjects: Physical Education, Fine arts Education, Peace
Education, and Value Education
Check Your Progress-4
1.6.4.
Let us Summarize
1.6.5.
Answer to Check Your Progress - 1, 2 and 3
1.6.6.
Unit end Exercises
1.6.7.
References
1.6.1. Learning Objectives
After learning through this unit, the student teacher will be able to;
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Explain the content of school subjects - Languages, Math and Social Science
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Explain the content of school subjects – Science, Physical and Health Education
and Fine arts
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Explain the content of school subjects - Peace Education, Work Education and
Value Education
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Explain the processes involved to understand the subjects based on different
disciplines.
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1.6.2. Introduction
Experts in the field of school subjects have suggested that school subjects are not
given, nor are they direct translations of academic disciplines. They can have different and
variable relationships to academic disciplines and applied fields. School subjects are human
constructions in response to social, economic, cultural, political, and educational realities
and needs. They are “uniquely purpose – built educational enterprises, designed with and
through educational imagination towards educative ends.”The formation of a school subject
entails a theory of content –a special way of selecting, framing, and translating content for
educational purposes. Knowing the content of a school subject thus entails knowing more
than the content itself; it entails an understanding of the theory of content that is crucial for
disclosing the educational potential embodied in the content. Hence, in the present unit, let
us understand the content that forms each of the school subject.