Qualification Perception of Prospective Teachers on Multicultural Education: A Need Assessment

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the needs of prospective teachers for multicultural education. Convergent parallel design, which is of the mixed research methods, has been employed in the study. The sample of the study has been selected by simple sampling method and constitutes of 165 prospective teachers who are studying at Afyon Kocatepe University Faculty of Education during 2016-2017 academic year.The quantitative data of the study have been collected by ‘Perception on Multicultural Education and Democracy Scale’, the qualitative data have been collected open ended questions created by the researchers. In the analysis of the quantitative data, descriptive statistics, Mann Whtney-U and Kruskall Wallis have been employed and the content analysis method has been used for the analysis of qualitative data. It has been concluded that the prospective teachers explain the multicultural education only on its cultural dimension and that they have inadequate knowledge in the field of multicultural education and that they need an education about multicultural education.