Focus on multicultural education in early childhood

Abstract

This article gives account of a research project concerning the implementation of multicultural education in two nurseries in Budapest. The research entailed focus group interviews with their teaching staff and collected qualitative data about their professional experience, views, the possible institutional approach to multicultural education, and how they evaluated its integration into their own programmes. Although the significance of multicultural education in early childhood is acknowledged, the field seems to be under-researched in Hungary. The experiences reported were overwhelmingly positive, but since the research context was limited, further investigation is necessary in the area.