The Importance Of Sociology In Education

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INTRODUCTION
1.1 General Statement

Sociology is defined as a systematic study of society. Sociology aims to explain and understand the behavior of human beings in society (Haralambos & Holbron, 2008). The quality of sociology lies in the certainty that it enlightens the students with global current issues with a global perspective. Sociology helps to administer students to learn and evaluate different cultures, groups and societies throughout history. As such, studying sociology will develop students’ analytical and critical thinking skills. This is because sociology requires students to analyze and examine diverse and various theoretical approaches and apply those sociological theory and concepts in students’ presentations and essays (Kidd et al, 2003)

Cambridge International Examination (CIE) for Sociology consists of two stages, that is ‘A’ level and ‘AS’ level. ‘A’ level Sociology is made up of …show more content…

SPN 21 aims to improve Brunei Education’s Strategic Plan (2007-2011) by transforming the traditional ‘talk and chalk’ and teacher-centered pedagogy to student-centered pedagogy. With the implementation of SPN 21 Inquire-Based Science Education (IBSE) which aims to develop learners’ interest, stimulate creativity and critical thinking; the researcher believes that the use of pictures; can help educators prompt such actions among the students. As opposed to the teacher-centered pedagogy, where the role of the teacher is to teach and the students passively listen and learn from the teacher; the use of pictures as pedagogy can activate student-centered learning (Eilam, 2012). Hence, this research study is mainly designed to improve ‘A’ level sociology students’ sociological content knowledge by using constructivist teaching methods. Constructivist teaching methods that were mainly used in this research study were

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