The Investigation of Teachers’ Multicultural Education Attitude According to the Perception of Social Intelligence

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyse the perceptions of primary and secondary school teachers’ about multicultural education and social intelligence according to various variables as gender, education level and school type and to determine the relationship between the variables. In the research relational modelhas been used. The study has been carried out with 318 teachers in 2015-2016 academic year. "Multicultural Education Attitude Scale" and "Social Intelligence Scale" is used for collecting the data. In the research, the perceptions of teachers’ about multicultural education and social intelligence is relatively high level. There isn’t significant relationship about social intelligence about gender, education level and school type. Also, there is significant differences about multicultural education about school type. In addition, it’s identified that there is significant relatively low relationship between the perceptions of the multicultural education and social intelligence. Also, it’s found that social information process is a significant predictor of the attitudes of multicultural education.

Keywords

• teacher
• social intelligence
• multicultural education
• perception
• öğretmen
• sosyal zekâ
• çokkültürlü eğitim
• algı