The Attitude of Teacher Trainers toward the Implementation of Multicultural Education in two Teachers Training Institutes
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1998-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitude of teacher trainers toward
the implementation of multicultural education in two teacher training institutes.
The subjects involved in the study were 33 randomly selected teacher trainers from
Awassa College of Teacher Education and Arba Minch Teacher Training Institute.
The statistics used were mean, standard deviation, percentage, t-test, F-test, chisquare,
correlation and regression. Based on these, the data collected through
awareness questionnaire, attitude scale and performance rating scale were analyzed
and interpreted.
The results indicated that the majority of the teacher trainers (72.73%) were
moderately aware of multicultural education. The largest proportion of the teacher
trainers (57.6%) had favorable attitude toward the implementation of multicultural
education in the training centres. The majority of the respondents (60.6%) were
poorly competent in implementing multicultural education in the classrooms. There
were very strong significant relationships among teacher trainers ' awareness,
attitude on multicultural education and the general patterns of their classroom
performance from multicultural perspectives. The attitude of teacher trainers
accounted very small proportion of the variation in their classroom performance from
multicultural perspectives, their awareness being controlled compared to the
variation accounted for by their awareness, their attitude held constant. Therefore,
from these it could be concluded that the current attitude of teacher trainers toward
the implementation of multicultural education in the two training centres may require
substantial amount of functional awareness on multicultural education to sufficiently
explain their classroom performance from multicultural perspectives .
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Attitude of Teacher Trainers