CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL LEARNING CURRICULUM

Reduced to essentials, the two pervasive characteristics requisite to social competence in a society such as ours are the abilities to think critically and to act independently.\Ve present to the maturing individual no clear-cut criteria or lower limits for these characteristics.Irrespective of his physical and/or mental status, it is incumbent upon the individual to "read" his environment, to recognize the criteria for social adjustment, and to then perform in such a way that he does not attract to himself the disapprobation, codified or not, awaiting those who in some way threaten the equilibrium.To put it another way, we leave it to him to weigh the facts and their possibilities ( think critically) and then decide how to act on these facts ( act independently).If the individual's perceptions of the facts are usually accurate and