Social Studies Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Regarding Geography Subjects’ Teaching

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Self-efficacy is an important term in every state of life as well as in educational activities. Self-efficacy that can be defined as personal thoughts about planning and applying. All those any acts of that person is one of the features that have to be embodied by the teachers. The teacher who has high self-efficacy is going to have much success in motivating the pupils. social studies teachers’ levels of self-efficacy as well as in each branch is an effective factor in academic success. One of the most important areas that constitute a source to the social studies is geography. Determining the social studies teachers’ self-efficacies in geographical subjects is very important in terms of ability to evaluate themselves and to present their impacts on students. The study which is carried out in accordance with this purpose is performed as online survey that is made by Gao (2011) and it is carried out by applying to 366 social studies teachers, working in different cities of Turkey, by means of the technique called ‘Random Sampling’. According to the results of the survey having two sub-dimensions, the social studies teachers’ senses of self-efficacy towards teaching the geographical items and expectation results are at medium level. While the self-efficacy of the teachers doesn’t differ in terms of sex, age and seniority variants, it has a reasonable difference from the point of educational background and departments that they graduated.

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Social studies teacher , geography , self , efficacy

International Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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International Journal of Geography and Geography Education