Integrating Ethics in Teaching Social Studies: A Focus on the Students Values and Character Formation

Vol. 1 No. 4

Year: 2008

Issue: February-April

Title: Integrating Ethics in Teaching Social Studies: A Focus on the Students Values and Character Formation 

Author Name: Odette So G, Carmencita Castolo L 

Synopsis :

The article discusses about the importance of ethics, values and character integration in the teaching and learning process particularly on the part of the teacher.  In the teaching of Social Studies as a subject, the teacher has also the responsibility of imparting and implying values and ethics particularly in the secondary schools education.  In the paper, the experiences of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School in teaching Social Studies, its curriculum and how ethics and values are integrated in the subject are discussed.