In this article, we establish connections between teacher education and teachers’ encouragement of positive attitudes towards multiculturalism. We present some theoretical views on incorporating dimensions of multiculturalism into teacher education, and afterwards we briefly present some models of teacher education. Then, the results of the empirical research which was conducted among teachers in Slovenian border areas are presented. The objective of the research was to determine how teachers encourage students to have positive attitudes towards multiculturalism, and whether there are any differences between teachers who were educated in different programs of teacher education.
This article explores the importance of teachers' conceptions of student learning. In the first part, we focus on the teacher conceptions that stimulate process-oriented instruction. In the second part, we present the results of empirical research on teachers in Slovenian border areas. The principal aim of the research was to determine to what extent the teachers' conceptions of student learning are process-oriented (contrary to traditional orientation), and whether there are any differences between teachers who graduated from different faculties and those that were educated in different teacher education programs.
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