David Epstein wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Michael Smith went: > >> I don't know about the US but here in Canada if you want to be a >> high school teacher you must have taken what are called 'teachable >> subjects' (you must take 3 I think), such as math, music, physed. > > I've never heard the term "teachable subject." I see now that there > are a lot of websites that use the term, but seemingly none that > define it or specify criteria for it. What does it mean? > It means simply a subject that is taught as a course in the standard high school curriculum. Psychology is taught in some high schools as an elective, but it is not a subject of the standard high school curriculum (e.g., math, english, physics, chemistry, biology, history, languages, etc.). I'm not sure how the "social science" Mike Smith saw is adjudicated. Perhaps any discipline generally regarded as a social science (psych, sociology, political science, economics) "counts." There are no nationwide standards in Canada. Education is strictly under the jurisdiction of the provinces, so the public school curriculum varies from province to province.
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