Geographical Skills

Understanding the world we live in and positioning ourselves in the context of time and space in life is a result of geographical consciousness. Geographical awareness enables to know the world, country and close environment with its natural and human existence in the best way, and thanks to this awareness, it allows both to own it and to benefit from it in the best way by protecting it. Preserving ki includes planning and organizing by anticipating the future. Being geographically conscious individuals requires, on the one hand, acquire geographical knowledge and, on the other hand, geographical skills. Undoubtedly, our attitudes, identities, and values ​​deeply affect our geographically conscious decision-making. Geographical skills, on the one hand, provide individuals with different attitudes, values ​​and identities; It provides an opportunity to know, understand and question the other. When it comes to skill acquisition in geography education, it is a must to accompany theoretical knowledge with practice. When the literature is examined, both the fact that geographical skills are not supported with activities and practice examples and the absence of a detailed publication that brings geographical skills together in a single book constitute the main points of the preparation of the book. In this context, the book consists of eight chapters dealing with geographical skills, in the order of their presentation within the framework of the Geography Curriculum.
Hoping to accompany the story of the world, which presents an autobiographical narrative filled with evidence...