MIDTERM – EDUC 3:  Trends create opportunity – you seize the

TRENDS AND ISSUES IN SOCIAL STUDIES

opportunities (applicable to businesses,
corporate aspects)
WEEK 1: TREND VS ISSUE
 Issues creates problems – you solve problems
LESSON OUTLINE: (e.g., Artificial Intelligence)
 Are you responding to a trend or an issue?
a. Definition of trend Remember: the mindset and the approach are
b. Definition of Issue different when seizing vs. solving.
c. Trend vs. Issue o Are we going to seize or solving?
d. Trends, Issue and Social Studies Learning Area o Mindset, here, is mean to be the
approach or the HOW.
A. DEFINITION OF TREND
D. TREND, ISSUE AND THE SOCIAL STUDIES
TREND
LEARNING APPROACH
 Trend is a general development of change in a situation
or un the way that people in the way that people are Definition of Social Studies (NCSS, 2023)
behaving (Cambridge Dictionary).
 Social studies is the study of individuals, communities,
 A trend simply reflects what seems to be going around at systems, and their interactions across time and place that
any given time (vocabulary.com) prepares students for local, national, and global civic
 Trend is the trajectory of change on history (Lum, life.
2016). Saritas and Smith (2011), a trend arises from o To become more civic competent
broadly generalizable change of innovation (p. 294).
 A trend can vary in its strength and direction of change Definition of Social Studies (DepEd, 2023)
over time (Forward Thinking Platform, 2014).
o Within trend, there is a change and innovation.  Nakatuon ang Araling Panlipunan sa dinamikong
ugnayan ng indibidwal at lipunang kanyang
B. DEFINITION OF ISSUE kinabibilangan kabilang ang pandaigdigang lipunan at
mga demokratikong institusyon at instrukturang
ISSUE umaagapay at humahamon sa kanyang pamumuhay.

 Issue is a subject or problem that people are thinking
and talking about (Cambridge Dictionary).
 An issue is defined as a controversial or debatable topic
(the Council of State Governments, 2009).
 As an issue gains momentum, it can became a
mainstream issue or even become its own trend (Lum,
2016).
Issue can be:
a) Personal : any personal problems that affects certain
individual
b) Local : Problems that ca affects a town, city or state
c) National : Problems that relate to a nation or country as
a whole
d) Global : a matter of public concern that affects people
worldwide
C. TREND VS ISSUE
Similarities and Relationships
Relevance of Trends and Issue
 Using an inquiry-based approach, social studies help
students examine vast human experience through the
general question …
 As a result of examine the part (?), participants in the
past and learning now is to shape the future, social
studies prepared learners for a lifelong practice of civil
disobedience and civic engagement in their
communities.
 Social studies center on knowledge of human rights and
local, national and global responsive so that learners can
work together to create …
Purpose of Social Studies (DepEd, 2023)
 ??
o Not love for the country, discipline but to use
our capability and our own awareness to
have voice and work together

 A trend and an issue are similar in that they involve

change (Lum, 2016). For any given issue or trend, a
variable or a change was determined to represent it and
data was collected.
o We collected data in order to have awareness,
have a voice and to come up a better and
suitable solutions.
VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguous)
 An issue averge (?) into a trend if, over several years,
broad patterns of these changes emerge (Lum, 2016;
Saritas and Smith, 2011)
 Together, a trend and an issue are components of
foresight work which seeks to anticipate future change
(Lum, 2016).
o Trend and issues can determine the future and
this is through by gathering data and
knowledge.

Keep it to mind: