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India is a country which not only has diversity in its culture and heritage but it also has diversity in terms of schools and school systems. Whichever board/textbooks the schools may follow, in order to achieve the curriculum objectives especially with reference to social science, it should reflect our core national and constitutional values and needs etc. It is these values which are expected to promote unity and integration of our people. Here, the role of social science textbooks becomes very important. The present study reveals that the content presented in political science lessons in both the textbooks are in line with the objectives of teaching social science as given in NCF(2005) social science position paper. The content in majority of the political science lessons is informative, situation based, activity based and real examples are used to explain various aspects. This approach can be found in various activities mentioned, questions raised in between the content, in the questions ofpractice exercises etc. The inclusion of real pictures in the lessons increases the impact of the content. Both the textbooks have given more weightage to subjective type higher level thinking questions and have ignored objective type questions. The teacher edition developedby GCERT gives very good guidance to the teachers. * Authorfor correspondence
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