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Learning Progressions in K12: A Critical Overview and Prospects for the Future

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Learning Progressions in Geography Education

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This chapter endeavors to provide answers to the following questions: (1) “Does K12 education reflect progression and sophistication in geography education in Turkey?” and (2) “If it does, is it learning progression (LP) or content progression that is being achieved with the current K12 geography education?” While answering these questions, the chapter will also provide a critical overview of the current secondary school geography curriculum in Turkey. To this end, a brief discussion on how the current geography education in Turkey fits within the confines of an LP framework, with its main meaning and elements are identified in the literature under three subtitles, namely curricula, research and assessments and instruction. A detailed content analysis was carried out in the study in order to evaluate the K12 geography education in Turkey within the framework of LP. This chapter shares the results of this analysis and also provides some suggestions to begin and successfully sustain LP research in geography education in Turkey.

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  1. Department of Geography, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ali Demirci & Fikret Tuna

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  1. Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

    Osvaldo Muñiz Solari

  2. American Association of Geographers , Washington, District of Columbia, USA

    Michael Solem

  3. Texas State University , San Marcos, Texas, USA

    Richard Boehm

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Demirci, A., Tuna, F. (2017). Turkey. In: Muñiz Solari, O., Solem, M., Boehm, R. (eds) Learning Progressions in Geography Education. International Perspectives on Geographical Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44717-9_10

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