Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni

Effects of the Present Primary and High School Education Programmes In Turkey On the Formation of Consciousness for Geoheritage and Geoparks With a View to Protecting Them

Abstract: As the core elements of geologic protection; Geological Heritage and Geoparks can be considered asthe practical ways for expressibility of the physical environment to people and community, on which theyhave been spending their life. The natural disasters are the most widespread consequence of unknownenvironment. On the other hand, structuring as the consequence of fast increasing population and thediversifying raw material consumption cause destruction of the nature and give rise to disappearance ofGeological Heritage which are reference legibility’s for the past of the Earth. The disappearance of these  wealth makes the understanding of the Earth extremely difficult. Dealing with geoparks and geologicalheritage involve partial education which has to be the adult people occupation. The awareness forprotection of the nature is practiced in the developed countries by commencing prior to school educationand taught in primary and high school levels, which is realistic and perdurable. The syllabus of lessonssuch as science, environment, life, biology, geography etc. are enriched in accordance with the objectiveand there are also specific lessons on these topics. In order to identify the status of our country with thisrespect, the lessons and their syllabus of primary and secondary schools are investigated. The conclusionsare far-off from being hopeful where the concepts of “geologic protection”, “geopark” and “GeologicalHeritage” do not exist even as vocabulary in the syllabus.