Özet:

In this study, the importance of geography lesson in the curriculum at the period of Second Constitutional Era has been analyzed. This study gives information about the process of geography lesson and explains the lesson’s place in the curriculum with examples. Many documents are referred to illuminate the given time period and the contents of the textbooks that chosen for this lesson with information about schools and classes that used them included in the study. In the latter parts of the study there is a brief information about the life of İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu and his view on education. Also, there is information about his contributions on geography and several works of him. İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s works that focuses on the better teaching of geography have an important place in Second Constitutional Era. While examining this topic he stated the importance of staying away from rote learning and stressed that one can only love and learn geography by living it. 

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