Adnan Pinar

• Professor at Necmettin Erbakan University

This study aims to determine social studies teacher trainees’ comprehension level of climate, wind, temperature, precipitation, erosion, ecology and map concepts as part of the geography teacher training curriculum. The study was carried out with 200 teacher trainees studying at primary school social studies teaching departments of Selcuk Universit...

Settlements in respect of type and site selection are one of the most important issues of Geography. In this study multiple analysis employing GIS methodologies was conducted using geological, geomorphological, ground characteristics, flora, slope, visibility and elevations data. The reults were evaluated in order to select the most convenient site...

The purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes of non-thesis master's degree program: geography teacher candidates towards teaching profession regarding several socio-cultural features. The study was conducted in different universities with 218 geography teacher candidates enrolled in the geography education non-thesis master's degree progra...

The aim of this study is to reveal the teachers' views regarding the recommended instruments and methods of measuring assessment in Geography Course Curriculum that has been in practice in Turkey since 2005. In the qualitatively planned research, the data has been analysed from the discussions of 10 different geography teachers, 4 of them females,...

Education; a human activity, is a process of forming required behaviours deliberately in one’s life. Education, which is animportant point of human activities, is one of the development criteria of a country or region. Because; development of a countryis a positive function of educational facilities given to its people. All the information and skil...

After the agricultural activities, livestock is one of the oldest economic activity with the settlement of humanbeings This typeof activity is shaped and continues to develop according to geographical features of the land.Landforms and vegetation are the two biggest factors affecting the distribution of cattle and sheep in our country. As it isknow...

Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri (CBS); konum ve konuma bağlı her türlü bilgiyi içerebilen, güçlü veri tabanı olan bir sistemdir. CBS aynı zamanda bu verileri coğrafyanın bilimsel ilkelerine bağlı olarak grafik, profil, istatistik, harita, üç boyutlu görüntü vb. şekillerdeki analizler ile işleyebilmektedir. Bu çalışmada, CBS yöntemi, coğrafyanın temelini o...

In 05-07 March 2004, there had been a great disaster of flood in Silifke and its surroundingswith the flooding of Göksu River. It is understood that the rising of the flow that has caused theflood is because of the melting of the snow, rather than rain.The fact that the snow in the Basinof Ermenek Stream which is one of the two streams forming Göks...

The point of maximum slope in the reflectance spectra of leaves occurs around 690-740 nm and is termed the ‘red edge’. Strong correlations have been found between the red edge of leaves and the chlorophyll concentration of those leaves. Imaging spectrometers can record the red edge of canopies and strong correlations have been observed between cano...