On the Draft Curriculum for the New Social Studies Course

Abstract

The draft social studies curriculum realizes the demands on that subject which stem from decisions of the Twenty-seventh CPSU Congress, from the Fundamental Directions of school reform, and from resolutions passed by the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers on issues pertaining to the execution of the school reform. The structure of the social studies curriculum includes a description of the teaching and upbringing tasks of the course, the content of its academic topics (a total of ten, excluding the course introduction), which are grouped in four sections, brief formulations of the leading ideas, a concise description of the links between the course content and the content of other school disciplines, requirements with respect to pupil knowledge and skills, and model norms for knowledge and skill evaluation. Lists of educational equipment and basic methodological reading matter will be added in the future.