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ERIC Number: EJ1279657
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 13
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ISSN: EISSN-1554-5210
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Examination of the Teachers Multicultural Perceptions: Sample of Hatay Province
International Journal of Progressive Education, v16 n6 p151-163 2020
The objective of this research is to evaluate the multicultural perceptions of teachers working in Hatay city in terms of various variables. The study was carried out in the descriptive survey model, and the population consists of teachers working in different schools in the city of Hatay during the 2017-2018 academic year. The sample of the study comprises of a total 300 teachers, 136 male and 164 female, who were randomly selected. In the study, along with 'Multiculturalism Perception Scale' (MPS) composed of 25 items and developed by Ayaz (2016), "Personal Information Form", which aims to determine the demographic characteristics of teachers, and which was developed by the researcher, were used. Subsequently, for the identified sub-objectives; the arithmetic mean was used to specify the teachers' perceptions of multiculturalism; independent groups t-test to identify the relevance with gender variable and ANOVA were used to examine the relationship between age, branch and school type variables. Data was analysed using SPSS 21 and Mplus 7 programs. In order to examine teachers' multicultural perception levels in terms of various variables, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were applied. In conclusion, it was discovered that teachers' perceptions of multiculturalism did not change statistically according to gender and age variables, but it was found that there was a statistically significant change according to branch and school type variables. A statistically significant difference between teachers' perceptions of multiculturalism was found only among preschool teachers and branch teachers. According to the school type variable, teachers' perceptions of multiculturalism differed significantly only between preschool and secondary school teachers.
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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