Teachers' ideas about Multicultural Education in a Changing Society: the case of the Czech Republic

Contains fulltext : 73500.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)This article draws on Czech teachers' ideas about multicultural education at a time when the teaching of multicultural education has become obligatory for primary and secondary schools. After describing the broader context within which this reform has taken place - specifically, the transformation of the educational system and the changing ethnic mosaic of the Czech Republic - the authors present results of a qualitative research study of Czech teachers' ideas about multicultural education