Teachers' Views on Migration and Multiculturalism Cover Image

Budapesti tanárok nézetei a migrációról és a multikulturalizmusról - Szükség van-e a diverzitásra és a multikulturalizmusra?
Teachers' Views on Migration and Multiculturalism

Author(s): Ágnes Boreczky, Luu Lan Anh Nguyen
Subject(s): Education, State/Government and Education, Nationalism Studies, Migration Studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: nationalism; multiculturalism; migration; teachers’ views and attitudes;

Summary/Abstract: The study was carried out in 2016–17. It aimed at revealing teachers’ views on multiculturalism and multicultural education together with their concept about migrants and immigrant children. When constructing a framework of interpretation, we supposed that views on multicultural education and attitudes concerning migrants would be connected to, or, indeed, interrelated with teachers’ national identity, as well as their previous experiences of diversity. The results of the questionnaire research based on a sample of 368 pre-service and in-service teachers demonstrate that multicultural views and attitudes are strongly correlated with those on migration. The sense of threat seems to be interrelated with an essentialist national identity, which on the other hand has a negative relationship with the ethnic diversity of the respondents’ families and their social environment.

  • Issue Year: 26/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 404-417
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian