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Social sciences. Level 3 to 16.

How people think, live together and organise their societies: psychology, sociology, philosophy, politics and more. All of it is planned and not yet written.

All seventeen subjects

8 strands (1 beyond school) · 41 topics · about 158 modules planned · 0 specified · 0 with a sample lesson. From Primary 3 to 300 Level.

Series SSSSSocial sciencesWave 4
Planned for authoring wave 4.

Psychology

The science of the mind and behaviour: how we grow, learn, remember and relate to others.

Previews Psychology

  1. Feelings and the mind

    SS-PSY-MND · Primary 3 to JSS 1 · about 4 modules planned

    Naming feelings, understanding moods, and how thoughts affect what we do.

    • About 4 planned

  2. What psychology is

    SS-PSY-INT · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    How psychologists study the mind and behaviour using evidence.

    • About 3 planned

  3. Growing up: development

    SS-PSY-DEV · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    How children and teenagers develop in body, thinking and relationships.

    • About 4 planned

  4. Learning and memory

    SS-PSY-LRN · JSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    How we learn, why we forget, and study habits that work.

    • About 4 planned

  5. Social psychology

    SS-PSY-SOC · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Conformity, group behaviour, prejudice and helping others.

    • About 4 planned

  6. Mental health and wellbeing

    SS-PSY-WEL · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Stress, common mental health conditions, and where to find help.

    Handled with care. Mental health topics may touch learners personally. Education, not diagnosis; points to trusted adults. Not shown below Level 8. Comes with a facilitator note.

    • About 4 planned

Sociology

How societies are organised: families, groups, institutions, change and inequality.

Previews Sociology, Social Work

  1. Groups and society

    SS-SOC-GRP · Primary 4 to JSS 2 · about 3 modules planned

    The groups we belong to, and how people learn the ways of their society.

    • About 3 planned

  2. Family and kinship

    SS-SOC-FAM · JSS 1 to SSS 2 · about 4 modules planned

    Different family forms and kinship systems, and how they are changing.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Education and work

    SS-SOC-EDU · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    How schools and jobs shape people's chances in life.

    • About 3 planned

  4. Social change and urbanisation

    SS-SOC-URB · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Migration to cities, new technology and how communities change.

    • About 4 planned

  5. Inequality

    SS-SOC-INQ · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Differences of wealth, gender and opportunity, and how they are studied.

    • About 4 planned

  6. Culture and belief

    SS-SOC-REL · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    The role of culture, custom and religion in social life.

    • About 3 planned

Philosophy and critical thinking

Asking big questions and reasoning carefully about knowledge, right and wrong, and the good life.

Previews Philosophy, Law

  1. Asking big questions

    SS-PHL-QST · Primary 3 to JSS 1 · about 4 modules planned

    Thinking together about fairness, friendship, truth and what is real.

    • About 4 planned

  2. Arguments and reasons

    SS-PHL-ARG · JSS 1 to SSS 2 · about 4 modules planned

    Premises and conclusions, good reasons, and building an argument.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Fallacies and bias

    SS-PHL-FAL · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Common reasoning mistakes, persuasion tricks, and cognitive bias.

    • About 4 planned

  4. Ethics

    SS-PHL-ETH · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 5 modules planned

    Ways of deciding what is right, and applying them to real dilemmas.

    • About 5 planned

  5. African philosophy

    SS-PHL-AFR · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Ubuntu, personhood and community, and African philosophical traditions.

    • About 4 planned

  6. Knowledge and truth

    SS-PHL-KNW · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    How we know what we know, and the limits of knowledge.

    • About 3 planned

Political science

Deeper than Civics: political ideas, systems, policy and power, in Africa and beyond.

Previews Political Science, International Relations, Public Administration

  1. Political ideas and ideologies

    SS-POL-IDE · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 5 modules planned

    Liberalism, socialism, conservatism, nationalism and Pan-Africanism.

    • About 5 planned

  2. Comparative politics

    SS-POL-CMP · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Comparing presidential, parliamentary and federal systems around the world.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Power and authority

    SS-POL-PWR · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    What power is, where authority comes from, and how it is held to account.

    • About 3 planned

  4. Public policy

    SS-POL-PUB · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    How governments make, carry out and judge policies.

    • About 4 planned

  5. Politics in Africa

    SS-POL-AFR · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Post-independence politics, democratisation and governance across Africa.

    • About 4 planned

Anthropology

Studying human beings and their cultures, past and present, by living among and listening to people.

Previews Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology

  1. What anthropologists do

    SS-ANT-WHT · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    The study of humankind, and its four fields.

    • About 3 planned

  2. Human origins

    SS-ANT-ORG · JSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Fossil evidence of early humans in Africa, and how our species spread.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Culture and kinship

    SS-ANT-CUL · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Customs, rituals, marriage and kinship across human societies.

    • About 4 planned

  4. Fieldwork and ethnography

    SS-ANT-FLD · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Observing and interviewing to understand a community from the inside.

    • About 4 planned

  5. Ethics of studying people

    SS-ANT-ETH · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    Consent, respect and who gets to tell a community's story.

    • About 3 planned

Mass communication and journalism

How news and media are made, and how to read, check and make media responsibly.

Previews Mass Communication, Journalism, Film and Media Studies

  1. What news is

    SS-MCJ-NWS · Primary 5 to JSS 3 (BECE) · about 3 modules planned

    What makes a story news, and the difference between news and opinion.

    • About 3 planned

  2. Writing news

    SS-MCJ-WRT · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Reporting facts clearly: the inverted pyramid, quotations and headlines.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Radio and broadcasting

    SS-MCJ-BRD · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    How radio and television reach people, and making a radio programme.

    • About 4 planned

  4. Media literacy

    SS-MCJ-LIT · Primary 6 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Checking sources, spotting misinformation, and understanding advertising.

    • About 4 planned

  5. Media law and ethics

    SS-MCJ-ETH · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Accuracy, fairness, privacy, defamation and press freedom.

    • About 4 planned

  6. Community media

    SS-MCJ-CMM · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    Community radio and local reporting that serves a village or town.

    • About 3 planned

Education studies

How people learn and are taught, and how education systems work.

Previews Education, Psychology

  1. How people learn

    SS-EDU-LRN · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Ideas about learning, from practice and feedback to motivation.

    • About 4 planned

  2. Teaching and explaining

    SS-EDU-TCH · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned

    Planning a lesson, explaining clearly, and helping a younger learner.

    • About 4 planned

  3. Curriculum and assessment

    SS-EDU-CUR · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    What gets taught, why, and how learning is measured.

    • About 3 planned

  4. Education systems

    SS-EDU-SYS · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    How schooling is organised in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and elsewhere.

    • About 3 planned

  5. Education and development

    SS-EDU-DEV · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned

    How education links to health, income and opportunity in communities.

    • About 3 planned

Beyond school (Beyond school, university level)

University-level methods for the social sciences: designing research and analysing data.

Previews Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Mass Communication

  1. Research methods

    SS-BYD-RSM · A level / JUPEB / foundation year to 300 Level · about 6 modules planned

    Designing studies, surveys, interviews and observation, and research ethics.

    • About 6 planned

  2. Statistics for the social sciences

    SS-BYD-STA · A level / JUPEB / foundation year to 300 Level · about 7 modules planned

    Describing data, sampling, hypothesis testing and regression for social research.

    • About 7 planned

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