SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE DISCOURSE OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

This paper explains the contemporary debates around emergence of social sciences as a discipline and the discourse of critical pedagogy embedded in it. The debates focused around understanding the historical, philosophical and methodological assumptions on emergence of the discipline and its contribution in officering the possibilities for critical teaching- learning process at classroom level is the prime focus of the paper. Exploring the nature of struggles in construction of social sciences enables one to understand the significance and scope it offers to engage critically in reconstructing and reimagining the discourse of critical pedagogy.