A Geographical Skill Suggestion to Geography Teaching Curriculum: Spatial Thinking Skill

Abstract

The skill of spatial thinking has emerged depending on today's developments and is closely related to the geography discipline. This situation affects the skills that teachers and students should have in geography education. The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the conceptualization of spatial thinking skills in Turkey and to examine how this skill can be a part of geography education. It mainly deals with the place of spatial thinking in the geography discipline, how to describe it and how geography education can benefit from this skill. Space is the most basic concept of modern geography education and it needs the pedagogical evaluation as a skill that should be acquired to the students. By conducting a literature review with a critical approach, the authors' observations were added to the study and the study was completed. At the same time, it was argued that spatial thinking skills should be in the geography curriculum as a geographical skill in Turkey.