예비교사의 다문화 역량 척도 개발

Abstract

The increasing number of students from multicultural families in Korea entering to multicultural society recently has raised concerns of maladjustment problems caused by students in the school environment. The purpose of this study is to develop a multicultural competence scale for pre-service teachers to solve the educational problems mentioned above. However, before multicultural education training is carried out to those pre-service teachers, it is necessary to examine the levels of their multicultural awareness, multicultural attitude, and multicultural skills. The basic questions are examined with the content validity through the Delphi survey, a pilot survey and main survey. Objective criteria for the estimation of measurement concept such as the statistical significance of the levels of multicultural competencies between current teachers and pre-service teachers are used to test the validity of evaluation items. The multicultural competence scale from this study consists of three main factors; the Multicultural knowledge, the Multicultural attitude, and the Multicultural education skill. Each has several sub-factors. The Multicultural knowledge has four sub-factors: multicultural society knowledge, multicultural student knowledge, multicultural education knowledge, and multicultural education effect knowledge, the Multicultural attitude has two: multicultural society attitude and multicultural education attitude. The Multicultural education skill also has two: multicultural education environment skill and multicultural education method skill. Finally, 71 questions consist of these factors are extracted for a multicultural competence scale for pre-service teachers.