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SUBMITTED TO:
MISS:SALLY PAUL
[SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHER]
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SHAHINA.S
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- 1. ONLINE ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED TO: MISS:SALLY PAUL [SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHER] SUBMITTED BY: SHAHINA.S [SOCIAL SCIENCE - OPTIONAL]
- 2. COMMUNITY RESOURCES -MEANING, NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE.
- 3. INDEX SL.No. Content Page .no 1 INTRODUCTION 4-5 2 IMPORTANT COMMUNITY RESOURCES 6-7 3 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES 7-8 4 CONCLUSION 9 5 REFERENCES 10
- 4. INTRODUCTION Social Science is, in its broadestsense, the study of society and the manner in which people behave and influence the world around us. It tell us about the world beyond our immediate experience, and can help to explain how our own society works –form the causes of unemployment or what helps economic growth, how and why people vote ,or what make people happy. It provides vital information for governments and policy makers, local authorities, non-governmental organizations and others. According to Michaelis, “the Social Studies are concerned with man and his interaction with his social and physical environment; they deal with human relationships; the central function of the social studies is identical with the central purposeof education – the development of democratic citizenship”. National Council for the Social Studies defined Social Studies as “the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence". Community experiences can enrich social studies in instructions in ways more than one. To achieve the purposes ofsocial studies, the child must, become a real part of the community in which he lives, interact with it and contribute to it. To become an effective citizen, the child must become a responsible member of community with civic attitudes and ideals compatible with the spirit of democracy. There is no more effective way of becoming this kind of person than through practicing what such a person will do. A variety of community experiences offer the child the laboratory in which he may experiment with life in the community and begin to find his place in it.
- 5. A community resourceis anything that has the potential to improve the quality of life in a community. Traditional community resources start with organizations that focus on helping people, such as supportgroups and poverty outreach group, but the definition of community resources is much broader. It includes public services, such as libraries and postoffices, gathering places such as community centres and churches; and businesses that serve the community by providing jobs and easy access to necessary products. Theindividuals who work to improve community life by helping others, cleaning up the community or organizing informal community activities are also community resources. Community resources are a group of services or assisted programme that are provided to the members of a community for free or at an affordable price. Each resource is made available to community members to help them become self- reliant and maintain their human rights and wellbeing. A community can be many things; it is people who live in the same neighbourhood or city, people with the same interest or back bound, or even organizations or communities that have something in common. Resources tangible and intangible, meet the need of the community by providing assistance, ideas and solutions. Depending on the community, whether it is a geographic area or a group with common goals or characteristics. Community resources development is all about quality of life and engagement by building stronger communities through civil engagement and using resources in the bestmanner for desirable organizations or individual’s knight. Here we are going to discuss about Community resources – meaning, nature & significance.
- 6. IMPORTANT COMMUNITY RESOURCES To make best use of the available community resources, the teacher should help his pupils to catalogue the available resources before proceeding to study them. The catalogue should include every information available about the places that can enrich instructions in social studies. Each place be listed separately with maximum possible information about its name , location, route to reach the place, persons to be contacted, most appropriate time to visit the place, the resources and materials of study available, expenses likely to be incurred etc. For preparing the catalogue readily usable, it may be divided into various sections as follows. 1. PLACES OF HISTORICALINTEREST This section may include temples, churches, gurdwaras, mosques, old historical records, building monuments etc. 2. PLACES OF GEOGRAPHICAL INTEREST It may include such places as factories, mills, railway station, sea-ports, air ports telephone exchange, radio station, TV centre, theatres etc. 3. PLACES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEREST. This list may include various clubs, parks, museums, zoo, art galleries, fun resorts, university etc. 4. PLACES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST It includes banks, trading centres, stockexchange, markets, dairies, LIC building etc. 5. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS In this section should be included the panchayat Ghar,hospital,police station, water supply, community centre ,various government offices etc.
- 7. 6. PLACES OF FORMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL A separate section is spared to catalogue traditions, customs, rituals, attitude etc. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES Community resources that facilitate learning include everything in the community that can be used to illustrate a conceptor generalization, or to help children internalise a value. Such resources include every community situation in which children get opportunity to apply their intellectual, social or personal potentials and skills. It also includes every experience that allows them to express their feeling and clarify their values. There are four main reasons why community resources are valuable: 1. Teaching and learning become relevant, becausethey can be performed through the children’s social experiences. 2. The community provides excellent opportunities for social action and for the development of intellectual and social skills. 3. The schooland community can become closer to each other. 4. The children learn more about the community, become involved in its affairs, and thus become better citizens. Even in ancient times educational theorists had argued that using child’s experiences as a stepping stone to newer and newer knowledge will be more effective than merely depending up on text book. This is a very sound theory.
- 8. Colling has highlighted the value of community resources as follows: 1. Internal school work becomes more meaningful when this is linked with out of schoolexperience. Concrete and familiar situations from base for the development of new cognition. 2. That will act as an effective medium for training in citizenship, as students get a feeling that they are actually involved in community life in a meaningful way. 3. Students can acquire greater proficiency in problem solving for example, active involvement in the planning and execution of a visit to some important community centre will give pupils a feeling that they are part of the community life. 4. Students gain first-hand experience about the job opportunities available, qualification necessary for each job, working conditions remuneration, etc. 5. Through participation in appropriate voluntary service activities and by way of membership in community organization, students develop positive attitude towards social service. They obtain enriched understanding of the possibilities for portably using leisure time for activities within the community. Role of teacher 1. Teacher can inform both positives and negatives to pupils about each resource. 2. It allows parents to talk voluntarily 3. Teacher should not be prejudice against the child.
- 9. CONCLUSION Community provides ‘concrete’ ’visible’, and’ tangible’ resources which are extremely dynamic, interesting and ‘meaning ful’ for the teaching and learning of Social Science. It is not enough for a child to have ‘knowledge’ about the factories, farms, council sessions, museums and social agencies. He must have direct ‘acquaintance with, all these. A community is a child’s laboratory for having first-hand experience about the ways of living.
- 10. REFERENCES TEACHING OF SOCIAL STUDIES -A.S.KOHLI ANMOL PUBLICATIONS PVT.LTD NEWDELHI’ SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING AND PEDAGOGIC ANALYSIS - DR.K.SIVARAJAN DR.T.V.THULASIDHARAN DR.N.K.VIJAYAN