A quality basic education that allows meaningful learning can serve to eradicate great social differences and conflicts existing in our society. The development of the citizen is one of the main goals of today's education, which seeks to promote the person as a whole. In the present study, I propose an intersection between "Temas Transversais" (PCNs, 1998) and the proposal of a Multicultural Education formulated by Banks (1993, 2009) and Sleeter (1991, 2008) in the context of teacher education in Brazil with the aim of answer the following research questions: How are the principles of Multicultural Education reflected in Brazilian foreign teacher education policy and practice of "Temas Transversais?" What are the perceptions of foreign language teachers working in Brazilian basic education regarding the preparation obtained in the teacher education program to deal with "Temas Transversais" in their daily activities? In order to accomplish this goal, I first used theory in Multicultural Education with the objective of giving theoretical basis to the analyzed documents secondly, I used Thematic analysis to analyze interviews with four Spanish teachers where they express their perceptions on their preparation regarding to work with themes of social justice in a specific teachers education program. By answering the research questions I found that it is appropriate to use Multicultural Education theory as theoretical foundation to explain the curricular orientations for Brazilian basic education also, analyzing the participants interviews, I identified that the teacher education program, from which the participants graduated, did not effectively prepare the professionals to follow the guidelines contained in the documents of the National Curriculum Parameters (1997). [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]