The Preschool Teachers’ Attitudes About Education of Multiculturalism
Abstract
Multicultural education; ethnicity, religion, race, language, gender, where cultural properties due to differences
such as the living area, to reduce identity conflicts and power sooner quinidine, society, philosophy of education
that appeal to different cultural characteristics and be reflected in the formal education of the application and
based on democratic values, to promote cultural diversity equality training which is defined as a mixed school
climate.This study was conducted to determine the pre-school teachers in multiculturalism and cognitive levels
of knowledge and attitudes of multicultural education. The study population consisted of teachers in pre-school
located in Düzce. The sample of the study in Düzce province in formal kindergarten and kindergarten assistants,
including 5 men and 86 women constitute 91 pre-school teachers. Joseph research within the framework of
quantitative research methods Ponterotto G. (1998) led a group of researchers developed by the Multicultural
Education Teacher Attitudes (OCTO) is used. Research has established formal working group of kindergarten
and pre-school teachers working in kindergarten. The study was carried out with the teacher. The scale used in
this study, Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .74 bulunarak as is provided for translation and language
validity. Factor analysis showed that the scale of the one-dimensionality of supported theoretically predicted.
Age according to the result, graduated region where the school is located, where the school their seniority and
job place and according to the cultural structure of the occurrence of settlement of prior training for the various
variables was examined whether there is a difference. As a result, the location of the school they graduated
teachers, seniority, school, depending on whether they work in the province or district was found that differences
in the approach to multicultural education.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
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Publication Date
November 21, 2016
Submission Date
November 7, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 3 Number: 2