World Council for Curriculum and Instruction- WCCI
Abstract
In this research, the relationship between the levels of locus of control of teacher candidates who will be not only practitioners of the innovations in education, but will also have to work with students from different cultures, and the levels of Multicultural Proficiency Perceptions will be studied. On the other hand, as levels of teacher candidates’ optimism increase, their attitudes towards innovations and working in different cultures are estimated to be more positive. Moreover, Attitude Scale towards Multicultural Education for Teacher Candidates developed by Yavuz and Anıl (2010) and “Locus of Control" are used in the research. The study group consists of 353 prospective teachers studying in different undergraduate programs. SPSS for Windows 20.0 program was used for data analysis. Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney - U and Spearman Correlation were used in the analyzes. It was found that the locus of control and multicultural attitudes of the participants did not differ according to their gender. According to the findings of the study, it is seen that as the teacher candidates tend to have internal locus of control, their attitudes towards multicultural education increase. In addition, it has been determined that the locus of control differ significantly according to the age and the undergraduate program in which they study. On the other hand, the attitudes of the participants towards multicultural education differed according to their age, undergraduate program and grade. In the light of these results, the importance of carrying out studies for the development of these two variables from the first stages of learning levels emerges
