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CTET Social Studies /Social Sciences Syllabus 2024

CTET Syllabus 2024

CTET Social Studies/Social Sciences Syllabus

[60 Questions]

a) Content
[40 Questions]

1. History
   • When, Where and How
   • The Earliest Societies
   • The First Farmers and Herders
   • The First Cities
   • Early States
   • New Ideas
   • The First Empire
   • Contacts with Distant lands
   • Political Developments
   • Culture and Science
   • New Kings and Kingdoms
   • Sultans of Delhi
   • Architecture
   • Creation of an Empire
   • Social Change
   • Regional Cultures
   • The Establishment of Company Power
   • Rural Life and Society
   • Colonialism and Tribal Societies
   • The Revolt of 1857-58
   • Women and reform
   • Challenging the Caste System
   • The Nationalist Movement
   • India After Independence
2. Geography
   • Geography as a social study and as a science
   • Planet: Earth in the solar system
   • Globe
   • Environment in its totality: natural and human environment
   • Air
   • Water
   • Human Environment: settlement, transport and communication
   • Resources: Types-Natural and Human
   • Agriculture
3. Social and Political Life
• Diversity
• Government
• Local Government
• Making a Living
• Democracy
• State Government
• Understanding Media
• Unpacking Gender
• The Constitution
• Parliamentary Government
• The Judiciary
• Social Justice and the Marginalised

b) Pedagogical issues
[20 Questions]

• Concept & Nature of Social Science/Social Studies
• Class Room Processes, activities and discourse
• Developing Critical thinking
• Enquiry/Empirical Evidence
• Problems of teaching Social Science/Social Studies
• Sources – Primary & Secondary
• Projects Work
• Evaluation

Note: For Detailed syllabus of classes I-VIII, please refer to NCERT syllabus and textbooks