Study of Multicultural Problems in Primary Schools of Saveh City and its Solutions

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate multicultural problems in primary schools in Saveh and provide solutions using quantitative, quantitative research. The statistical population included 15178 students and 1400 teachers in the academic year of 2018-19. Cluster sampling method, 260 teachers and 373 students, students' tools in the quantitative section of the socio-cultural questionnaire of Cohen and Rasman (2014) and in the qualitative part of the semi-structured interview with 20 teachers and content analysis. The research method was descriptive-correlational and Friedman and independent t-test. Results showed that the ranking provided by students and teachers (teaching, learning, content and environmental problems) was statistically significant at the level of 0.05. Also, people's view of learning, educational content, teachers' lack of familiarity with different cultures, and feelings of humiliation of students due to their accent to the educational problems of multicultural schools has a direct and significant relationship. In fact, the attention of planners to the content of education, the familiarity of teachers with different cultures will reduce the educational problems of these schools. On the other hand, providing counseling services to students in multicultural students' schools to deal with the feeling of embarrassment and shyness, the importance of different cultures in the texts of textbooks, the participation of students in group activities, lowering the classroom population, engaging more with Families, non-discrimination and special attention to cultures, emphasize more on the common points of cultures and the formation of educational groups with students from different cultures by teachers from the research results.

Keywords

• multicultural problems in schools
• educational problems
• educational and training solutions