Problems of Learning Social Studies among Socio-Economic Backward Students at Upper Primary Level: A Case Study of Three Schools in Maharashtra’s State nearby Slum Area

Abstract

Social study is an important subject at the upper primary level, which is distinct from the physical, biological or environmental sciences, because it is concerned with the behaviour of “human beings as members of societies”. So far as the people is concerned, society is the laboratory for proper conceptual understanding of social studies in term of their physical location, environment, economic activities, past culture & event, government, citizenship and democracy. This poses a greater challenge to social scientist as they need to establish hypotheses, observations and assumptions, which are general statements that formally, show the existence of cause and effect relationships between observable events since people’s behaviours cannot be controlled while learning. So whether the teachers developing moral and social value among the students.