Our Social Studies Program
In 1993, The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) reinforced the definition of Social Studies by issuing this statement:
"Social Studies is the integrated study of the social sciences and the humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse,democratic society in an interdependent world." (p. 213)
Our social studies program is aimed at demonstrating God’s unique involvement in the history of mankind. Primary purposes for including social studies in the SDA curriculum are pointing students to God as the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, seeing the guiding hand of God in history, studying the unique Adventist perspective of the Great Controversy, and teaching the brotherhood of all mankind. It prepares students to think critically and make informed decisions as citizens in a multicultural society and interdependent world. It will prepare students for service in this world and citizenship in the world to come.
The social studies curriculum includes the teaching of values. The values of personal and corporate integrity, honesty, ethics, morality, and responsibility derive from individual belief systems which affect the way we behave both privately and publicly. Freedom, justice, respect, tolerance, and patriotism are values which affect the way in which individuals and groups interact.
We believe that every student at Bermuda Institute is special, that each is filled with great potential and has a vast variety of God-given talents and abilities. It is our firm belief that with the guidance and help of a dedicated Christian teaching staff, the potential of those talents and abilities can be developed to the honor and glory of God.
In 1993, The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) reinforced the definition of Social Studies by issuing this statement:
"Social Studies is the integrated study of the social sciences and the humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse,democratic society in an interdependent world." (p. 213)
Our social studies program is aimed at demonstrating God’s unique involvement in the history of mankind. Primary purposes for including social studies in the SDA curriculum are pointing students to God as the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, seeing the guiding hand of God in history, studying the unique Adventist perspective of the Great Controversy, and teaching the brotherhood of all mankind. It prepares students to think critically and make informed decisions as citizens in a multicultural society and interdependent world. It will prepare students for service in this world and citizenship in the world to come.
The social studies curriculum includes the teaching of values. The values of personal and corporate integrity, honesty, ethics, morality, and responsibility derive from individual belief systems which affect the way we behave both privately and publicly. Freedom, justice, respect, tolerance, and patriotism are values which affect the way in which individuals and groups interact.
We believe that every student at Bermuda Institute is special, that each is filled with great potential and has a vast variety of God-given talents and abilities. It is our firm belief that with the guidance and help of a dedicated Christian teaching staff, the potential of those talents and abilities can be developed to the honor and glory of God.
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