Regional Geography Teaching in Terms of the Philosophy of Social Sciences in Universities in Turkey

BİLGİLİ M.

MARMARA GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, sa.33, ss.114-134, 2016 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Dergi Adı: MARMARA GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.114-134
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Regional geography, geography teaching, reductionism, essentialism, philosophy of social sciences
  • Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Regional geography is a subfield of geography which dominated the discipline between the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. During this period, the world and countries were divided into specific regions according to geographical features and then regions were examined based on those features. After the Second World War, regional geography ceased to be a main paradigm in geography. It was replaced by other paradigms being mostly positivist. Although region was moved away from the geographical discipline central point, the term of region, remained to be in use widely in the discipline.