Teachers' and Students' Attitude and Practice Towards Multicultural Education
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purposes of this study was to asses and understand the magnitude and level of
attitude and pract ice towards mu lti cultural education by teachers and students in some
selected private higher education in stitutions in Addis Ababa. Moreover it was
conducted in order to understand the di ffe rence among teachers as well as among
students on the level of attitude and practice they have. This research has also
attempted to see the presence of gender difference among teachers and also among
students on the ir attitude and practice towards multi cultural education. In this study a
total of 298 teachers and stud ents were taken as a sampl e. From this sample 58 of
them were teachers and 240 were students. For a better und erstanding of the situat ion
a mixed researc h method was employed with an emphasis on triangul ation design.
Questionnaire, FGD and observat ion were used as method of data co llection. The
mean va lue, I" eq uency, percentiles and expected mean were used for analyzing the
quantitative data while the qualitat ive data were thematically organized, categorized
and exami ned to undcrstand the emerging patterns of responses. .F.,i.n--a-lly the results of
thi s study showed th at the majority of teachers and students were found as having a
good level of pos itive attitude and a higher level of pract ice which is advocated by the
goa ls and philoso phies of multicultural educat ion. However from both, teachers and
students proportions that cann ot be taken as in signifi cant have been found to have a
negative incl inat ion and a lower practice of elements that are promoted by
multi cu ltural educati on. Therefore, for enabling the in stitutes to be benefited from
multi cultural in this study it is recommended that the institutes, teachers and students
should prepare them se lves to know, und erstand and utilize the concepts, ideas and /
programs of mu lticultura l education.
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Attitude and pract ice towards mu lti cultural education