CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING: A STRATEGY FOR EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM TEACHING IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (An Empirical Study)

The objectives of education have changed from time to time and so has our concept of teaching. What we teach? And how we teach? Depends to a great extent on what we want to achieve. Teaching is both an art and science. Able teachers are always find ways and means to improve their teaching techniques. The improvement of teacher by employing new methods of teaching is a need of the locus. The ways the knowledge, skills and values are delivered to the learner have a meaning both for a teacher and the student. The most recent concept of teaching is: teach the child how to learn, how to discover, how to think and how to inquire.