Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Towards Pupils Belonging to a Cultural Minority: A Quantitative Research in the Prefecture of Aitoloakarnania, Greece

Ζoe karanikola; Stathis Balias

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Teachers’ Intercultural Sensitivity Towards Pupils Belonging to a Cultural Minority: A Quantitative Research in the Prefecture of Aitoloakarnania, Greece

Ζoe karanikola, Stathis Balias

Published in International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Received: 1 April 2015 Accepted: 6 April 2015 Published: 18 April 2015

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This paper presents the results of a quantitative research conducted in the Aitoloakarnania Prefecture in order to investigate whether Primary Education teachers are sensitive towards pupils belonging to a cultural minority and whether their sensitivity is influenced by gender, time of graduation, education level, training, their experience in culturally diverse classes and their direct or indirect personal migration experience. The research results showed that the orientation of teachers seems to be at the stage of acceptance, the first of the three ethnorelative stages of Bennett, which reflects their ability to perceive diversity, to be open towards it, respect it and express curiosity to learn more things.

Published in	International Journal of Elementary Education (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijeedu.20150402.13
Page(s)	35-40
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Diversity, Intercultural Education, Legislation, Nationalism, Intercultural Sensitivity

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Ζoe karanikola

University of Patras, Department of Education and Early Childhood Education, Rion, Greece
Stathis Balias

University of Patras, Department of Education and Early Childhood Education, Rion, Greece

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