Geograpy teaching in Turkey: Curriculum, teacher education and text books

The purpose of this study is to determine politics and applications on the subjects of curriculum, teacher education and text books in geography teaching in Turkey between 1923-2008 years and so, to demonstrate the adequancy of these politics and applications quantitively and qualitatively.At the first part of the research, question of its problem, purpose, importance, hypothesis, limitations and various concepts given in the context has been studied. The second part covers studies on curriculum development concerning secondary geography education, geography text books and teaching materials developed in accordance with the changes in geography curriculum and themes on capacity development of geograpy teachers with in-service and pre- service trainings. In third part research model, instruments of data collection, collecting data and analysis of data has taken place. Findings taken from the results of evaluation of data and their comments have been presented at the fourth part. The last part of the research consists of results of data analysis and recommedations.From the establishment of Turkish republic to the year of 2008 the studies on avaliable resources on curricula, teacher training and text books concerning geograhy science has been scanned according to method of documentary analysis. Connecting to findings and comments, for the solutions of problems some recommendations has been presented.