Journal of Awareness

Abstract

The most important resource for countries is the
amount of population they have. But nowadays, the quality of the population is
as important as the amount of population. The most important factor determining
the quality of the population is the level of education. Trained manpower and
educated individuals are the most important elements in developing of
settlements, economic value productivity and social and cultural development.
The development of societies which gives importance to education is faster. So in
a residential area there is a close relationship between the education level of
the population and the economic level. Due to insufficient importance given to
education, economic and social development rate is low in less advanced and
developing settlements. Educational geography, examines the educational status
of the population in settlement areas and focuses on the causes and
consequences of the results. The most basic data which reveals the educational
status of settlements is the literate rate. However, nowadays, depending on the
diversification of education, the literacy rate is insufficient to reveal the
educational status of the settlements. Educational geography not only examines
the literate status of the population but also examines the distribution of the
population to education levels according to graduation status of the
population.

Istanbul, Turkey’s most advanced city, has 39
districts. These districts’ levels of development are different. In this study,
Bakirköy and Sultangazi districts, whose settlement history and socioeconomic
levels are quite different from each other, were researched in terms of
educational geography. Thus, the relationship between the educational and
development levels of the settlements were tried to be determined.