The Development Of Teacher’s Multicultural Competence In The Context Of Modern Higher Education

Abstract

Multicultural teacher education is relatively new in Kazakhstan. The reality of a multicultural world requires including cultural diversity training in pre-service teacher education programs. Currently teacher-training programs are oriented towards preparing teachers who are multicultural in their practice and in their perspective. The article focuses of the need of developing teachers’ multicultural competence. The key components for multicultural competence, from the point of view of the authors, include the development of cognitive, behavioral and motivational awareness, knowledge and skills with respect to culturally diverse contexts. Awareness involves recognition of the differences; knowledge about the nature and uniqueness of cultural groups; and skill acquisition focused on the quality of interaction between those cultures.

Keywords

• multicultural competence
• higher education
• development
• teachers
• multiculturalism
• dimensions
• approach
• models
• components of the multicultural competence
• multicultural programs
• multicultural narratives