Özet:

In primary education, the information that is learned includes the basic stone information for school life. Some of the required subjects of primary education are in the geography field. Therefore, geography subjects have been included in primary education programs, especially in Social Studies, Life Science and Natural Science courses. Also, the elective course of 'Our City' is composed of geographical subjects. Although, geography subjects were started to be taught at primary education level after the foundation of the Turkish Republic, they had been included in the curriculum during the Ottoman period. The primary education programs have changed many times and the contents of the geography course have also been revised and updated consequently. On the other hand, when geography subjects of the 2018 primary education programs were examined, it is seen that there are many similarities with the previous programs. It is important that the teachers of the course should be versatile and avoid memorization in their teaching method. In this study, document review has been used as a main qualitative research method. "The main objective of the study is to examine and analyze the situation related to geography education in 2018 primary school curriculum. In this study, document review has been used as a main qualitative research method. In this context, the curriculum prepared by the Ministry of Education in 2018 was examined. In addition, the curriculum of the previous years and the literature on the subject were reviewed. In the study, geography subjects in Social Studies, Life Science, Our City and Natural Science courses are taken as basis. As a result, in elementary education, geography subjects were sprinkled within different courses. Especially program of Natural Science has an intense geography content. Therefore, as a suggestion, the primary education programs should be continued to renew. In the world the primary education programs and the developments in the field of geography should be constantly monitored and taken care to keep up-to-date geographical content.

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