KEMAHIRAN BUDAYA DALAM KALANGAN PELAJAR PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN GURU DI MALAYSIA: SUATU SOROTAN

Abstract

Understanding cultural diversity can bridge cultural differences between teachers and students from various ethnicities and cultures. Students from diverse ethnic and cultures will get benefit from teaching strategies that are responsive to diverse cultures. In an effort to understand cultural diversity in Malaysia, one of the ways is the need to have cultural skills among preservice teachers. Preservice teachers need to have a high level of cultural skills so that every teaching and learning session in the class can attract students' interest and avoid bias, that can make teaching sessions in the classroom more effective and responsive to cultural diversity. Teacher education programs need to provide more opportunities for preservice teachers to engage and interact with diverse cultures in order to improve the cultural skills of preservice teachers to teach students from diverse ethnic and cultures and can improve the teaching quality of preservice teachers when teaching in the diverse classroom.