Zewdie, Marew (PhD)Belachew, Alemayehu2022-03-162023-11-052022-03-162023-11-051998-05http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/30622The 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 .enAttitude of Teacher TrainersThesis