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Social studies course is one of the most appropriate courses for students to learn their duties and responsibilities towards society and the environment, and to gain basic knowledge, skills and behaviours in order to become effective citizens. In this context, it is an important competence for students to recognise and introduce their environment with its economic, social, cultural, historical, etc. elements. Individuals equipped in this respect are called "locally literate" individuals in the literature. The acquisition of local literacy skills by students can be possible only if they are trained by locally literate teachers. Because the characteristics of teachers in this sense affect the profile of the students they are expected to educate. For this reason, it is important to reveal the local literacy characteristics of social studies teachers and this research serves this purpose. The study group of the research consists of 30 social studies teachers working in Izmir province. The research design of the study, which was carried out with a qualitative approach, is a case study. Interview method was used to obtain research data. As a data collection tool, a semi-structured interview form was used to reveal the local literacy characteristics of social studies teachers. In the analysis of the data descriptive analysis method was used. As a result of the research, it was determined that social studies teachers' local literacy skills were open to improvement in cognitive, affective and activity dimensions and suggestions were made in this direction.

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