Analysis of attitudes towards multiculturalism in a sample of Spanish teacher training students

Abstract

Multiculturalism is a fact that has its impact on the educational system and demands attention to the training of teachers to educate in diversity. Research with a quantitative approach was developed based on a single data collection method with an ordinal Likert scale character, based on a non-experimental, exploratory, longitudinal, and descriptive design. To obtain the information of applied a questionnaire (Scale of Attitudes towards the Multicultural Fact) with an Alpha of Cronbach of 0.8 to a sample of 1,170 students of teaching. Although positive attitudes towards the multicultural fact appear, it is verified the necessity to work, from the Faculties of Education, the multicultural education, that facilitates to the future teachers the incorporation, in its daily activity, of an agreed answer with the multicultural fact of our country.