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Background: There have been many studies on geography education in our country. However, the basic knowledge, skills, behavior and habits necessary to prepare students for life and higher education by educating them according to their interests and abilities are acquired during primary school. There have been no scientific studies on the evaluation of studies conducted on “geography education” for the primary school period. Objectives: For this purpose, it is to determine the current and future status of geography education at the primary school level by evaluating the content of the studies in the field of geography education at the primary school level in Turkey. Methods: In the research, the document review method, which is a systematic method used to examine and evaluate all documents, was used. Based on this, the data were analyzed through content analysis. As documents, articles, papers, book/book chapters, master's and doctoral dissertations in the field of geography education at the primary school level were examined as well. Results: Thus, in the research, 111 studies on geography education in primary school were accessed. Conclusions: Depending on the results obtained, most of the studies on geography education at the primary school level were achieved on the master's theses and the most in 2019. In addition, it was determined that most theses were published at Gazi University, and most articles were published in the Marmara Journal of Geography. While the subjects of concept perception/misconception and geography education/teaching in primary education/primary school were mostly dealt with in the studies, the descriptive scanning method was the most used in the studies.

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