Teaching of Social Sciences in Higher Education The Influence of Family Political Discussion on Youth Civic Development
Factual study of social sciences and particular discipline like political science is a need of the time. Social science teaching can achieve this by promoting students ability to take initiative to positive critical reflection on social issues that have a bearing on the creative coexistence between individual good and collective good. Greeks argued that personal virtue required knowledge of and participation in the life of the polis. This is an attempt to discuss the matter of facts with of political science. The findings that family political discussion is broadly linked to youth civic development conforms to cognitive developmental theory, which argues that young persons construct meaning and knowledge about the political world through social interaction in this Instance with their parents. This discussion projects the influence of parent’s discussion with any youth which produced the civic development as well development of any nation in particular and the world order in general.
