PRIMARY TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF CULTURAL DİVERSITY AND INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Öznur Rengi; Soner Polat
- Source
- Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 135-156 (2014)
- Subject
- ultural Differences
Intercultural Sensitivity
The Dimensions of Intercultural Sensitivity
Folklore
GR1-950
Language and Literature
- Language
- German
English
Russian
Turkish
- ISSN
- 1868-8934
97201812
The teachers’ perception of cultural diversity is important to provide justice and equality in education, prevent the cultural conflicts and communication productivity of interactions in schools that there are cultural differences. This study aims to determine primary teachers’ perception of cultural diversity and observe teachers’ levels of “intercultural sensitivity” in relation to their students. The working group in this research is 286 primary teachers who work public schools province of Kocaeli (Çayırova) in 2013-2014 acedemic year. The mixed model is used. The research data was collected by using the “İntercultural Sensitivity Scale” (Chen and Starosta, 2000). It is used t-tests, test of ANOVA and arithmetic average for composing quantitative data. The qualitative data was collected by using the teachers’ answers that “ What do you think the cultural differences of students?”. It is provided content analysis for qualitative data. It is seen that the teachers’ intercultural sensitivity is high. Morever ‘‘differences of languages’’ are the most striking the perception of primary teachers’ cultural differences.