Enjoying cultural differences assists teachers in learning about diversity and equality : an evaluation of antidiscrimination and diversity training

Turnšek, Nada (author)

The present study is based on a quasi-experimental research design and presents the results of an evaluation of Antidiscrimination and Diversity Training that took place at the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, rooted in the anti-bias approach to educating diversity and equality issues (Murray & Urban, 2012). The experimental group included 52 in-service early childhood teachers attending the training, which consisted of a total of 120 hours. There was also a control group comprising 130 teachers. The ADT had a decisive impact on all of the measured variables: on an improvement in the participants’ knowledge of discrimination, and on increased support for positive measures and for the preservation of the cultural traditions and language of immigrant children. It was found that self-assessed personality characteristics are predictors of the teachers’ beliefs, especially the enjoying awareness of cultural differences variable, which correlates with all of the dependent variables.

• Language: English
• Keywords: early childhood, diversity, equality, discrimination, early childhood education, teacher education
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2013
• Number of pages: Str. 117-138
• Numbering: Vol. 3, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-78416
• UDC: 37.011.3-051:373.2
• ISSN on article: 1855-9719
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.226
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9934665

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• Publication date in RUL: 30.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 1855-9719
• COBISS.SI-ID: 252707584

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Uživanje v kulturni raznolikosti je v pomoč vzgojiteljem pri izobraževanju za različnost in enakost - evalvacija izobraževanja za nediskriminacijo in raznolikost

Abstract

Študija temelji na kvazieksperimentalnem raziskovalnem načrtu; predstavlja izsledke evalvacije izobraževanja za nediskriminacijo in raznolikost, ki je potekalo na Pedagoški fakulteti v Ljubljani; utemeljeno je na antipristranskem pristopu k izobraževanju za vprašanja raznolikosti in enakosti (Murray in Urban, 2012). V eksperimentalni skupini je bilo 52 vzgojiteljev, zaposlenih v vrtcu, ki so bili deležni 120-urnega usposabljanja; v kontrolni skupini je bilo 130 vzgojiteljev. Izobraževanje je imelo odločilen vpliv na vse merjene spremenljivke: izboljšalo se je znanje udeležencev o diskriminaciji, povečala se je podpora pozitivnim ukrepom ter ukrepom ohranjanja kulturnih tradicij in jezika otrok priseljencev. Samoocene osebnostnih lastnosti so napovedovalci prepričanj vzgojiteljev, še posebej spremenljivka uživanje v zavedanju obstoja kulturnih razlik, ki je povezana z vsemi odvisnimi spremenljivkami.

• Keywords: vzgojitelji, predšolska vzgoja, diskriminacija, izobraževanje, izobraževanje učiteljev, vzgoja v ranem otroštvu, zgodnje otroštvo, raznolikost, enakost