How Do Geography Textbooks Deal with Map Skills? A Comparison of Turkey and England.

Abstract

The skills used in all areas and stages of education are important also in geographical education. The concept of skill is important for the individual’s life at all stages of Education. Geographical skills contribute to the abilit y of individuals to think critically and solve problems. They also enable the individual to think at a metacognitive level. In this study, it was aimed to show the degree to which secondary geography textbooks gain the level of use of map skills. Maps are communication tools that show where and how positional information is found. One of the most important materials to be used in geographical education are Maps. The map, which will appeal to the studen t, should benefit the individuals in their daily life by an inductive method. Individuals with map skills can transfer this directly into their lives. They can both read the immediate environment in which they live and have global mapping skills and positio n analysis skills. In this study, skills, geographical skills, geography textbooks were analysed to determine their conceptual framework by focusing on map usage skills. This research is a qualitative one , with research data of 9, 10, 11 and 12 grade textbooks printed forthe 2017-2018 to 2019-2020 academic ye ar s. The process of collecting and analyzing geography textbooks used the document review technique.

Ortaöğretim coğrafya ders kitaplarında tematik harita kullanımının incelenmesi

“…Ancak bu araştırmalar daha ziyade genel (referans) haritalara yönelik temel harita becerilerini, ders kitaplarının harita becerisi açısından öğretim programına uygunluğunu ve ders kitaplarındaki haritaların tasarım boyutunu içermektedir (Hawkins, 1977;Gillen, Skryzhevska, Henry & Green, 2010;Aksoy & Sönmez, 2012;F. Ünal & Ünal, 2012;Oruç & Liman, 2012;Buğdaycı, Bildirici & Tarman, 2015;Bekdemir & Polat, 2016;Darakçı, 2016;Kara, Sezer & Şanlı, 2018;Artvinli & Dönmez, 2020;Trahorsch & Bláha, 2020). Alanyazında tematik haritaları konu edinen araştırmalara bakıldığında ise yok denecek kadar az sayıda araştırmanın var olduğu görülmektedir.…”

Türki̇ye İkli̇mi̇ni̇n Öğreti̇mi̇nde Google Earth Programinin Öğrenci̇ Başarisina Etki̇si̇

“…It has been observed that most of the studies conducted on the use of printed maps in teaching have focused on the use of maps by teachers, their map skills, and their attitudes and opinions about maps (Kızılcaoğlu, 2007;Duman, 2011;Ünlü and Güncegörü, 2013;Gökçe, 2015), map reading and map using skills of students (Gerber, 1981;Boardman, 1989;Freundschuh, 1990;Harwood and Usher, 2010;Sönmez and Aksoy, 2012;Koç and Bulut, 2014;Öncü and Elmastaş, 2020), the relationship between learning styles and map skills (Koç, 2013), the effectiveness of maps on teaching (Joyce, 1987), and the place and importance of maps in geography curriculums and textbooks (Artvinli and Dönmez, 2020;Pala and Başıbüyük, 2020).…”