Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the notional frameworks of geography trainee teachers about urban subject. Data of the study have been obtained by applying word association test on 85 undergraduates who studied urban geography lecture. The obtained data have been categorized and classified by their semantic relations respectively by the researcher. It was given as table and frequency by these categories. Examining the categories, it can be seen that the notions with high frequency are mainly the notions such as malls, population density, becoming substructure and service center, development with regards to education, health and cultural utilities, metropolises, sorts of urban, type of structure and industry. Although trainee teachers studied urban geography lecture, the fact that providing notional integrity in perceiving is hard is revealed. Notions, which are not related to each other very much, revealed about urban which is among the subjects discussed in the others category. The result shows that notions visualising in trainee teachers’ minds about urban are mainly related to their reminiscence which they experimented in their daily lives, then they were taught during their lectures.
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