Published 2014-03-01
Keywords
- geography curriculum,
- primary education,,
- teachers,
- in-service training
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Copyright (c) 2023 Aikaterini I. KLONARI, Achilleas MANDRIKAS, Anastasia MELISTA, Maria TZOURA
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present the results of the Greek primary education Geography
Curriculum piloted during the school year 2011-2012. The sample consisted of 43 primary
school teachers, from different Greek regions, who piloted the new Geography Curriculum
and from whom semi-structured interviews were obtained. Furthermore, 36 lesson plans and
worksheets produced by teachers during piloting were analyzed. The results from the
interviews showed that teachers were generally satisfied with the new Geography
Curriculum, seemingly having captured to a large extent the aims and the objectives; they
ascertained absolute correspondence between intended learning outcomes and proposed
activities, considered the teacher’s guidebook to be highly satisfactory and valued the teacher
training accompanying the pilot scheme as being very effective. Moreover, an analysis of
lesson plans and worksheets showed that teachers created activities and adopted teaching
methods that included the essential characteristics of the Geography Curriculum, both in
terms of development of the basic concepts and the use of new technologies.