Education for Life: The Subject of Social Sciences
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| - What are social skills and why are they important
- Who are your friends?
- Why do we make friends?
- How to be a good friend?
- How to become an even better friend?
- What to do with your moods and emotions?
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| - What is a family?
- My family, my tribe, my community, my society
- Family lineage, family creed, family traditions
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| - Seasons, weather, and climate of your home area
- The nature, plants, animals, land, and soil of your area
- The geography and relief of your home community
- The history of geographical changes of the area where you live
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| - Fine arts: Music, Dance, Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Theatre and Performance Art, Architecture, Cinema, Broadcasting
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| - Who am I? Self Identity
- How do I feel? My emotions
- How do I think? My senses, my perceptions
- My desires, goals, and achievements
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| - The culture of the USA
- Folklore
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| - The history of your town / city / community
- The origin, culture, traditions of your town / city / community
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| - The history of anthropology
- The origins of human being
- The theory of evolution
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| - Family relationships
- Family roles and responsibilities (past, present, future)
- Strategies of communication, listening, and leadership with individuals and in groups
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| - Religion
- National holidays
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| - What education means to you
- How education differs in different cultures
- How education has changed over time
- What can be expected for the future in education
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| - The relief of your country
- The geographical location and borders of your country
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| - The climate of your country
- The nature, animals and plants of your country
- The minerals, the ground, and soil of your country
- The conservation of natural resources of your country
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| - The tectonic pattern of your country
- The geological pattern of your country
- The geomorphological structure of your country
- The paleogeographic conditions of the territory of your country
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| - How to cope with stress
- Stress, its function
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| - Emotions, states, and moods
- Emotions and their functions
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| - The history of your country
- When and how did it start?
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| - Your nation, nationality
- The population of your home country
- The industries and agro-industrial complex of your home country
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| - The connection between motivation, needs and emotions
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| - Historical types of states
- Forms of statehood
- legal state
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| - Strategies for management of and in groups
- Strategies for supporting others individually and in groups
- Strategies for energizing and encouraging others and groups
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| - Types of families: conjugal (nuclear family), consanguineal (extended family), matrilocal, cohabitation, civil unions, same-sex relationships, etc.
- What makes people a family? (consanguinity ‘blood’, affinity, co-residence, etc.)
- “Rules” in personal relationships
- Exploration of different individual and cultural ideas that define families and their roles
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| - What is history?
- What is the history of history?
- Why is it important to study history?
- Why is history important to you?
- What does history mean to you?
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| - Attention
- The ability to focus
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| - Rules on the street
- Rules in different parts of the world
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| - Art as means of personality creation
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| - How do we remember, keep memories and forget? Why?
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| - Subculture and its functions
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| - Evolution and typology of societies
- Individuals in the context of socioeconomic development of the society
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| - What makes culture?
- The functions of culture
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| - The transportation of your country
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| - The sense of responsibility
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| - The administrative and territorial division of your country
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| - The economic status and political situation of your country
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| - Law
- The system of law: norms, institutes, and branches
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| - Social norms and their types
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| - Cultures
- World culture
- World outlook and historical thinking
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| - Conflict Resolution
- Exploring and respecting points of view and the opinions of others
- Strategies for offering and asking for help individually and in groups
- Strategies for agreement and disagreement individually and in groups
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| - The artistic culture of Western Asia
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| - Ancient Greek architecture and arts
- Prehistoric Greece and classical Hellas
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| - The origin of Roman genius
- Roman culture: liturgy and carnival
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| - Periods of history
- Significant events prehistory to 500 C.E.
- Significant events 500-1500 C.E.
- Significant events 1500-1900 C.E.
- Significant events Post-1900 C.E.
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| - The perception of the world by primitive people, how this perception has changed, how is it still the same, what changes can be expected in the future?
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| - Religions and philosophies
- Historical processes
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| - Myth
- Mythological consciousness
- Sayings, proverbs, riddles
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| - Lithosphere
- The shape and motion of the Earth
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| - Stages and periods in culture development
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| - Analysis: deduction and induction
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| - The culture of Ancient Egypt
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| - Imagination
- Creative thinking
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| - Main characteristics, functions and sources of law
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| - The culture of ancient civilizations
- Antique culture
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| - Family related law and legalities (marriage, custody, property, power of attorney, etc.)
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| - The constitution of the USA
- Constitution law
- Constitutions of the world
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| - The architecture and arts in Byzantium in V-VIII centuries
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| - The crisis of humanistic ideals
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| - Baroque culture in Europe
- Italian baroque school
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| - Geographic overview of Europe
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| - Humanism. A new model of the world and personality
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| - The right to vote in political elections
- The history of voting
- Voting in different cultures and countries
- What does voting mean to you?
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| - Social perception
- Family as an institution for socialization
- Group thinking versus thinking for yourself
- Attitude as an aspect of contribution in all situations
- Setting and clarifying boundaries to assure win-win relationships
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| - Contribution- What is contribution and why contribute?
- Volunteering and active or conscious vs passive or unconscious contribution
- Contribution in relation to your family, community, society, and own goals
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| - Geographic overview of the world
- The world’s Land masses
- The world’s oceans
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| - Two Way CommunicationTeaching/ learning opportunities across all age groups
- Strategies for asking for and offering help
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| - The right to organize political parties and public associations
- The right to freedom of belief, world outlook, and convictions
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| - Geographic overview of South America
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| - Geographic overview of the Arctic and the Antarctic
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| - Engaging family in your personal growth process
- Contribution within a family and outside
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| - Significant historical events of Europe
- Significant historical events of Southwest Asia
- Significant historical events of Africa
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| - Geographic overview of Australia
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| - Gothic style and scholasticism
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| - Personality: individual and collective
- Character and temperament
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| - Geographic overview of Asia
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| - Geographic overview of Africa
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| - Family as an economics unit (family economics)
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| - Geographic overview of North America
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| - Geographic Significant historical events of East Asia
- Significant historical events of South and Southeast Asia
- Significant historical events of the Americas (excluding the US)
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| - Legal status of a person and citizen
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INDIGO
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| - Branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the juridical
- Jural relationships
- Juridical responsibility
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| - Reasons of art nouveau beginnings
- The combination of Oriental and Western European art
- Symbolism as the aesthetic and philosophical background of art nouveau
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| - US and state history of resources, development, and government
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| - Personalities in psychology
- Methods and approaches in psychology
- Important revelations in psychology
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| - US Intellectual and Cultural History
- US Foreign Policy
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| - The industry of the world
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| - Flemish and Dutch arts as two poles of world outlooks
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| - Referendum
- Types of referendum
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| - The legislative branch: the houses of Congress
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| - Strategies for team building, forming and organizing groups
- Exploration of different roles in social environments and groups
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| - Philosophical pessimism and voluntarism
- Impressionism and Postimpressionism
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| - Exploration of current events and how they affect your family and their lives
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| - Economic ties and international tourism
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| - Exploration of different roles in social environments and groups?
- Who are you in different settings?
- Why do different social environments exist?
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| - The age of absolutism and Enlightenment period
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| - The Executive branch
- The President
- The Cabinet
- The House of Representatives
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| - The political map of the world
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| - “Golden century” in Spanish arts
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| - Politeness and gratitude skills
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| - International organizations
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| - Authorities
- Types of authorities
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| - Art nouveau
- Styles and trends in art nouveau
- New theater
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| - The agriculture of the world
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| - Local administration, state authorities
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| - Fairness and honor skills
- Negotiation and compromise skills
- Consensus meaning, value, and skills
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| - Realism in arts
- Romanticism in arts
- Historic outlook at a person
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| - Global issues
- The population of the world
- World nature resources
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VIOLET
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| - Social skills exploration for professional and formal environments
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| - Social skills exploration for recreational and informal environments
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| - Cognitive, emotional and behavioral skills exploration, acquisition, and application
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| - Financial law
- Administrative law
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| - Psychology in Middle Ages
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| - Engaging community in your personal growth process (idea source was Reggio)
- Community roles and responsibilities (past, present, future)
- Community defining attributes (values, beliefs, structure, government, traditions, etc.)
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| - Court system and law enforcement agencies
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| - Cultural circles as a community
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| - Social circles as a community
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| - Strategies for engaging diverse perspectives and conducting research
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| - Social competence and conscious personality development
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| - Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other cultures and their lives
- Exploration of current events and how they affect humanity as a whole
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| - Exploration of current events and how they affect your culture and the lives of everyone in it
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| - Exploration of current events and how they affect you and contribute to your life
- Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other families and their lives
- Exploration of current events and how they affect your community and their lives
- Exploration of current events and how they might be affecting other communities and the lives of the people within these communities
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| - The culture of the XXI century
- The culture of the XX century
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| - Behaviorism and neo-behaviorism
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| - New means of expression in music
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| - Functionalism in architecture
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| - Psychology in the age of Enlightenment
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| - Experimental psychology
- Modern psychology
- Gestalt psychology
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| - Contemporary issues and global perspectives
- Contemporary politics
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| - What other global perspectives exist and what historical perspectives distinguishes them?
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| - Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global cultures
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| - Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global communities
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| - Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global individuals
- Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of global families
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| - Environmental law worldwide
- International law
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| - What does it mean to think globally?
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| - Global perspectives and history
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| - Exploring global historical perspectives from the standpoint of humanity as a whole
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| - Cognitive psychology
- Psychoanalysis and the subconscious/unconscious mind
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