Prospective Teachers Awareness Of And Attitudes Tow Ards Mul Ticul Tural Education The Case Of Awassa College Of Teacher Educa Tion

The pUipose of this study was to investigate praspective teachers' awareness on issues ofrnmulticultural education. The study was also aimed at exploring the a/litudes of prospectivernteachers towards multicultural issues and its classroom practices. The participants involved inrnthis study were pwposively selected j'd year students at Awassa College of Teacher Education.rnAwareness questionnaire and a/litude scale were used to collect data. Percentage was used tornanalyze the data obtained using the two instruments. Correlation coefficienl was also calculatedrnto examine Ihe relalionship between awareness and attilude. The results indicated that thernmarginal majoriry of prospective teachers, 51%, were highly aware of Ihe role of sludentsrncull ural background in designing and implementing lessons in multicultural se/lings. Again thernmajoriry of the prospective teachers were found to be aware of the concept of multiculturalrneducation The majoriry of Ihe respondents, 60%, believed that teachers in multiculturalrnclassrooms could provide inSlruction is an all inclusive one. Prospective teachers reported tornhave posilive attilude towards gender, ability and ethnicily differences of students. From these, itrnwas concluded that these prospeclive leachers are with high awareness and positive at/iluderntowards lI1ulticullural educalion and its classroom practices.

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