Why Geography Learning: Candidate Teachers’ Views for Geography

Activity-based Learning in Secondary School Geography Lessons in Turkey: A Study from Geography Teachers’ Perspective

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the type and frequency of in-and out-of-school activities implemented in secondary school geography lessons in Turkey. A questionnaire survey was prepared and distributed to 150 geography teachers who participated in an in-service education organized by the Ministry of National Education in 2009. Eighty-one teachers responded to the twenty-four questio...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Economic geography

[Medical geography].

Hippocrates already noted that geographical factors such as climate, relief, geology but also settlement patterns had influenced the distribution of diseases. The task of medical geography is to investigate the associations between geographical factors and diseases. Thereby, geographic techniques and concepts are applied on health problems. Of particular importance is the mapping of diseases wh...