Abstract:

Description: In our research, students studying in private primary education institutions have been evaluated geographical education, geographical science approaches have been studied. In this study, a short and concrete survey was made throughout the Special Primary Education Institutions selected. Questions and answers asked to identify objectives such as being able to recognize, learn, expose geographical knowledge and interest have been achieved to some important results. In our survey, the 12-14-year-old group of students showing their views of geography science, it is essential to provide geography education with different educational programs. In the private educational institutions that are subject to an uninterrupted eight-year education, students of the 6th grade are taught Social Information lessons. At the same age group, the Anatolian High School program includes the National Geography course. Therefore, students of the same age group gave different answers to the questions that formed our survey. The given answers show that the different courses in the applied programs create a different view of geography education. This group of students we see as the adults of tomorrow is understood by the responses to the study of the natural environmental pollution that they love the geography course, and they are also a conscious environmentalist. It is a pleasant result for us that students who provide semi-imaginary semi-scientific answers to investigate the causes of physical and human events are also individuals with national values, who are closely interested in the physical, human and economic characteristics of our country. ABSTRA CT: In this research, the geography education given in private primary schools was analyzed to observe the approach of the students to the science of geography. In this study, a short and effective survey was conducted among selected private primary schools. Some important results were obtained, from answers to questions that were asked to reveal the obtained to know, learn and show interest in the science of geography. It is essential to give the geography education using different educational programs to expose how the 12-14 age studentgroup studied in the survey, visualizes the science of geography. Social Science courses are taught in the sixth year of the compulsory eighth year educational curriculum. For the same age group, national geography courses are present in the Anadolu High School's curriculum. For this reason, the same age group gave different answers to the auestions of our survey. The ansyvers reveal that different geography points of views are developed due to different courses, taught in high schools. The answers given in the survey include sensitive approaches to environmental pollution and show that the age group we see, as the adults of tomorrow, are conscious environmentalists. It is a pleasant conclusion that, the student who gave half imaginary and half scientific ansyvers to the investigations of the reasons of physical and human events are protectors of the values of our nation and are closely interested in the physical, human and economic aspects of our country.