Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of the Goals of Multicultural Education: Implications for the Empowerment of Minority Students.

Nel, Johanna

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ERIC Number: EJ470087

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of the Goals of Multicultural Education: Implications for the Empowerment of Minority Students.

Nel, Johanna

Educational Horizons, v71 n3 p120-25 Spr 1993

In a survey, 66% of 280 white preservice teachers identified the primary goals of multicultural education as cooperation, tolerance, and assimilation within the existing social structure. Limited numbers chose the goals of equality of all groups, promotion of equal opportunity, or responsibility to eliminate discrimination and prejudice by reconstructing society. (SK)

Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Minority Group Children, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Change, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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