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The NFG paper wants social science teaching to move from mere information to what?Read the answer and worked solution →The NFG wants the textbook to shift from a closed box to what?Read the answer and worked solution →What change in subject name does the NFG on social sciences suggest?Read the answer and worked solution →Colonial civics stressed which quality in citizens?Read the answer and worked solution →Which citizens does political science help produce, per the NFG?Read the answer and worked solution →The NFG proposes a shift in social science focus from utilitarianism to what?Read the answer and worked solution →How is social science popularly perceived, according to the NFG?Read the answer and worked solution →What wrong idea is often suggested to students early in schooling?Read the answer and worked solution →On content load, what should the social science syllabus stress?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body's point on retention without comprehension did the NFG endorse?Read the answer and worked solution →Which value is the social sciences expected to widen the popular base for?Read the answer and worked solution →The developmentalist view saw poverty, illiteracy and casteism as what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does gendering the curriculum require, according to the NFG?Read the answer and worked solution →How has gender usually been handled, which the NFG finds inadequate?Read the answer and worked solution →Which values should children appreciate through social sciences?Read the answer and worked solution →Which aim of social science study directly builds critical thinking?Read the answer and worked solution →Social science should teach children to respect what kinds of differences?Read the answer and worked solution →Textbook content, language and images should be critical of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which skills are primary-stage social studies meant to develop first?Read the answer and worked solution →What fact about the social environment is stressed in Classes III to V?Read the answer and worked solution →How should concepts be taught in Classes III to V?Read the answer and worked solution →Which concept should upper primary history be taught with emphasis on?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair together builds a view of environment and resources?Read the answer and worked solution →Which issue is named for emphasis at the upper primary stage?Read the answer and worked solution →At the secondary stage, social science should develop which kind of skills?Read the answer and worked solution →At the secondary stage, learners should do what with social and economic issues?Read the answer and worked solution →From whose perspectives should contemporary India be discussed at the secondary stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Political science at the secondary stage should discuss the foundations of what?Read the answer and worked solution →From whose viewpoint should secondary economics topics be discussed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy does the NFG call under-explored?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The NFG paper wants social science teaching to move from mere information to what?

  1. Timed memory drills
  2. Dictation drills
  3. Repeated recitation
  4. Debate and discussion
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Correct answer: D. Debate and discussion

The paper asks for a shift from imparting information to involvement in debate and discussion, which builds critical thinking.

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The NFG wants the textbook to shift from a closed box to what?

  1. A graded test booklet
  2. A teacher's script
  3. A fixed set of answers
  4. A dynamic document
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Correct answer: D. A dynamic document

The epistemic shift moves the textbook from a closed box to a dynamic document that invites further enquiry.

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What change in subject name does the NFG on social sciences suggest?

  1. Civics to Citizenship
  2. Social Studies to History
  3. Civics to Political Science
  4. Economics to Commerce
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Correct answer: C. Civics to Political Science

The group suggests renaming Civics as Political Science to show the dynamic process of power and contestation.

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