Abstract:

In this research, pedagogical formation students’ attitudes toward multicultural education were analyzed according to various variables. Totally 156 pedagogical formation students from Çankırı Karatekin University participated in the study. To gather data, ‘The Attitude Scale toward Multicultural Education for Teacher Candidates-ASIMETC’ was used. To analyze the data, various statistical techniques including percentage, frequency, arithmetical mean, standard deviation, t- test and Kruskall Wallis H test were used. Findings indicated that participants’ attitudes toward multicultural education are relatively positive. It was also seen that participants’ attitudes toward multicultural education did not differ according to ages and faculties. However, it was revealed that multicultural attitudes of the participants graduated from social sciences departments in the universities were significantly higher than the ones in sciences departments. The findings have also shown that the female participants have more positive attitudes toward multicultural education than the males. As a result, it was concluded that participants have positive attitudes toward multicultural education.

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