Attitudes of primary school teachers toward multicultural education

In this research, the purpose is to determine the primary school teachers’ attitudes toward the multicultural education. In order to do this, screening model as one of the descriptive research method was used and the survey adapted into Turkish by Yazıcı et al. (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 37:229–242, 2009), Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey was applied as the measurement instrument. The survey was applied to 176 teachers working in primary schools in Güzelyurt. The frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, t test, and one-way variance analysis ANOVA is used for the analysis of the data. The research results of the current study supported that teachers have positive attitude toward multicultural education. It is also reported that teachers’ attitudes toward multicultural education differ with respect to gender, the place of the graduated university, professional seniority, the area of the school and the number of the students in the school.