Multicultural society from view of university students

• Authors: Mariana Sirotová , Veronika Michvocíková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on exploring the way in which Slovakia is viewed as a multicultural society by sampling university students with a survey. For that reason, the aim was to examine the extent that participation in the educational process at university affects opinions held by the university students on the existence of a multicultural society in Slovakia. The theoretical part of the article defines basic key terms associated with the given issue. The aim of the article’s empirical examination is to analyse the formation of opinions of the surveyed students connected with the topic of a multicultural society in the educational process at universities. 200 university students participated in our empirical research. Data were collected in the course of April 2016 through a questionnaire prepared in advance. Processing and subsequent univariant, bivariant and multivariant analyses of the collected data were carried out using the statistical software SPSS 2.

Keywords

EN

culture; multicultural society; nation; university education; university students

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Language and Cultural Education
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 32-45

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-11-08

Contributors

author

Mariana Sirotová

• University of Ss Cyril & Methodius,

author

Veronika Michvocíková

• University of Ss Cyril & Methodius,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jolace-2016-0024