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Jeddah Prep and Grammar School

Business Studies and Economics

The teaching of the social sciences in Year 10 running
through to Year 13 opens up to the student vistas
of hitherto undreamt of knowledge and enquiry.
The student enters a world that blends clinical
and necessarily impartial analysis with a thirst for
discovering the very sources of social growth and indeed
revolutionary change. Necessarily, the social sciences
take the students out of their intellectual comfort zone
and indeed the worldview which they were wont to take
for granted.

It is the aim of the economics/business studies staff
to make the subjects intellectually enquiring and to
enable the students to actively engage with the world
that surrounds them. It is also to see that there are no
binary answers neatly ended by either an affirmative or
a negative response. Rather, the students are encouraged
to encounter the concept that situations critically
calling forth a range of solutions: and that the solutions
themselves may well be problematic. The social sciences
thus point to the complexity of existence – essentially
to life itself. Social science makes students into effective
critical thinkers.

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