@article{article_542132, title={The Investigation of Teachers’ Educational Beliefs and Attitudes towards Democracy and Multicultural Education According to Various Variables}, journal={International Journal of Academic Research in Education}, volume={4}, pages={41–58}, year={2018}, DOI={10.17985/ijare.542132}, url={https://izlik.org/JA44LE63CC}, author={Ayçiçek, Burak and Yanpar Yelken, Tuğba}, keywords={democracy and multicultural education,educational beliefs,attitude}, abstract={<i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Calibri Light’, sans-serif;" xml:lang="en-us">The
aim of the study is to determine the relationship between teachers’ educational
beliefs and attitudes towards democracy and multicultural education. The data
of the study were collected with <span style="color:#FF0000;"> </span>“Educational Beliefs Scale” and “Democracy and
Multicultural Education Attitudes Scale”. The sample of this relational survey
study consists of 202 teachers working in Antakya district of Hatay province.
The findings show that teachers’ educational beliefs regarding perennialism and
essentialism differ significantly according to gender and seniority variables, and
their beliefs regarding existentialism and re-constructionism differ
significantly according to school stage variable. The findings of the teachers’
attitudes towards democracy and multicultural education show that the teachers’
atttitude towards multicultural education differ significantly according to
gender, school stage and seniority variables, and their prejudiced attitudes towards
multicultural education differ significantly according to seniority variable. Significant
relationships were found between the teachers’ educational beliefs and attitudes
towards democracy and multicultural education. </span> </i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Calibri Light’, sans-serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span>}, number={1-2}