An Approach to Life Science and Social Sciences Curriculum in Terms of Cultural Geography

Abstract

Cultural geography is located in the junction point of culture and geography. Along with this, since the cultural geography has a wide scope and content, it has allowed a wide variety of definitions. Cultural geography is a field that establishes connections between culture and geography and exhibits determinist approaches among them. In schools, the knowledge, skills, language and cultural characteristics of the society are passed on to new generations. The subject of culture has always been important in primary and secondary schools in Turkey Cultural Geography subjects are given a great place in the Life Science and Social Studies Course Curriculum. On the other hand, young generations need to learn adequate cultural elements in order to avoid confusion and mental crisis. Among the objectives of the Life Science curriculum, it is important to educate individuals who recognize their cultural values and desire to live them. In addition, in the Social Studies Curriculum, many subjects, especially in the field learning of “culture and heritage”, have a cultural geography scope. In this context, it is seen that especially the Social Studies Course Curriculum is given an important place in the cultural subjects and enables the analysis of cultural geography. However, there is no adequate cultural geography studies in Turkey Qualitative research methods were used in this study. © 2019. All Rights Reserved.