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Social Sciences encompass all those concerns that involve society, interactions within individuals in the society, interactions between societies and interactions with the physical environment.  As an academic discipline in schools, social sciences will draw from

Social Sciences encompass all those concerns that involve society, interactions within individuals in the society, interactions between societies and interactions with the physical environment.  As a subject in schools, social sciences will draw from the academic disciplines of history, geography, political science, economics and sociology.  The objectives of the social science curriculum in schools is to build an understanding of the society and environment and to develop skills in students that will help them to engage meaningfully with  Social science curriculum in schools poses unique opportunities and challenges.  Besides engaging with specific academic disciplines, a sensitive teacher should be able to see the social dimensions implicit in all academic disciplines - for example, the sociology of science, the tole of gender in gender in mathematics learning or the connections between language and society.