Multicultural Teacher Education: Developing Knowledge, Skills, and Sensitivity

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Abstract

This research is a follow-up qualitative study from a previous quantitative study on Korean early childhood educators’ status of multicultural teaching competence. In the previous study, the data result suggested that Korean early childhood educators have relatively low competent in teaching multicultural classrooms. Also, it suggested that multicultural education; such as taking diversity related courses in teacher training college and/or attending workshops may play a role in the higher level of multicultural teaching competence. The study then left a future research suggestion to investigate other than multicultural education what other variables can predict different levels of multicultural teaching competence. Therefore, this study is sought to explore what variables might have impacted on participants’ level of multicultural teaching competence.

Authors

• Sungok "Reina" Park, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Keun Kyu Kim, Delaware State University