A Study on the Necessity of Map Skills in History Teaching

Due to every historical fact occurs in a place, it is important to gain map skills of students for doing effective history teaching. the aim of this study is to examine the necessity of map skills in history teaching toward social studies student teachers’ map drawings and perceptions. this study was carried out with 65 sophomore student teachers, studying at karadeniz technical university, fatih faculty of education, social studies teacher education program in the fall semester of 2013-2014 academic years. the study was designed with qualitative methodology, specifically case study. documents and interviews were used as data sources. in this context, two different subjects oriented map drawings and semi-structured interviews, done with 20 teachers, were investigated. collected data were analyzed with content analysis. the results of the study showed that majority of social studies student teachers have some deficiencies about map skills. also it is understood that the basic reason of these deficiencies is lack of taking effective education about map skills in their previous educational life.