Özet:

Human mobility in the world affects the demographic structure of the classrooms, as it does in every field today. This change allows teachers to meet more cultures; naturally, it causes them to have more diverse students. One of the ways that can be applied to integrate these differences into education and society is multicultural education. It is important that teachers and prospective teachers receive training on multiculturalism to become more conscious. This study was carried out with 44 prospective teachers who took the "Multicultural Education" course offered as an elective in the school of education of a state university in the Marmara Region in the academic year of 2021-2022. The research was designed with an explanatory sequential design. Quantitative data were collected by Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS), and qualitative data were obtained with the prepared interview form. According to the findings, the attitudes of the prospective teachers who took the multicultural education course changed positively compared to their scores before taking the course. In addition, prospective teachers expressed their opinions on the positive and negative aspects of the application of multiculturalism and what should be in the content of the course. Prospective teachers expressed a positive opinion that multicultural education would contribute to professional development. In addition, prospective teachers highlighted that planning in crowded classrooms may be a possible negative aspect of multicultural education. Finally, prospective teachers expected many topics to be included in the multicultural education course such as gender equality, immigrants, communication skills, and globalization.

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