A Preliminary Study on Developing Geography Literacy Based on Social Studies Learning Model to Improve Teachers 21st Century Skills

Geography education has become core teaching in 21st century skill oriented curriculum as it relates to globalization era and global awareness on prominent environment issues by century 21st. Geographical concepts in geography literacy that includes concepts of interaction, interconnection and its implications helps to understand global issues. Those concepts challenges students to critically and creatively solve problems as parts of skills in century 21st. This research is aimed to know a teachers understanding about geography literacy based on social science teaching to improve teachers skills century 21st. A survey to 13 junior high schools in Surakarta will be employed. Survey to social studies teachers in Surakarta in 2017, shows that mostly (92%) do not understand geography literacy and (70%) shows that they do not understand skills century 21st. Discovery-inquiry model and PJBL remain least used. Frequency of using laptop reach by 54% only. Internet as sources of study is used limitedly in learning process. Based on the conditions, a geography literacy social studies learning model to improve skills 21st century is in need to develop and tested to see its effectiveness.