The purpose of this study was to examine teacher''s perception, practices about the multicultural education, and their relationship.The subjects were 252 kindergarten teachers in Seoul and Koungi-do. Chung Sun Hee(1997) and Kim Rae Koung(2001)''s ques...
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher''s perception, practices about the multicultural education, and their relationship.The subjects were 252 kindergarten teachers in Seoul and Koungi-do. Chung Sun Hee(1997) and Kim Rae Koung(2001)''s questionare, which is modified and improved after preliminary research was used to measure teacher''s perception and practices about the multicultural education.The data were analyzed by the descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson''s correlations. The results of this study were as follows.First, Teacher''s perception about goals of multicultural education were significantly different by teacher''s educational level, teaching careers, teaching experience. And Teacher''s perception about contents of multicultural education were significantly different by teacher''s teaching careers, reeducation number, teaching experience.Second, Teacher''s practices about contents of multicultural education were significantly different by teacher''s kindergarten type, educational level, teaching careers, teaching experience, reeducation number.Third, the higher teachers gave importance ratings to multicultural education, the higher executtion score of teachers'' multicultural education was.