scholarly journals The Relationship among Early Childhood Teachers' Perception on the Purpose of Multicultural Education, Multicultural Sensitivity and Multicultural Teaching Efficacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Mi Jin Kim ◽  
Hye Jin Kim ◽  
You Jin Son
Author(s):  
Grace Onchwari

Various studies around multicultural education have looked at ways to identify the multicultural teaching competencies teachers need to teach diverse learners. Many of these studies have closely focused on teacher's perceptions, sensitiveness and behavior. However, there are limited studies regarding how teacher's cultural experiences are associated with multicultural teaching competencies. This chapter looked at the cultural experiences of early childhood teachers and how those relate to the teacher's multicultural teaching competencies. Fifty-seven early childhood teachers were investigated that were recruited from a state early childhood education conference by completing The Wayson's multicultural teaching scale. Positive correlations were identified suggesting a possible link between teacher's cultural experiences and their multicultural teaching competencies.


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