Aims and objectives of teaching economics at secondary level
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The aims and objectives of teaching Economics at the Secondary level are:
1. To acquaint the students with the contemporary economic problems and enable them to appreciate the efforts being made to tackle them.
2. To foster an urge to participate in the task of economic reconstruction.
3. To prepare them to cope with the stress and strain involved in the process of economic development.
4. To familiarize them with the different criteria of dividing world economy and to know why some countries are rich and some poor.
5. To enable them to know about the nation's physical and human resources and their potentialities for economic development.
6. To deepen their understanding and knowledge about the impact of development on environment.
7. To develop favourable attitudes towards conservation and wise use of natural resources.
8. To help them to understand that different sectors of the Indian economy are interlinked and they should develop simultaneously through planned and coordinated efforts.
9. To acquaint them with the basic terminology and elementary ideas of Economics.
10. To enable them to acquire skills in interpreting simple statistical data.