Engelsk titel: Multiculturality, a challenge for teachers in practical nurse education
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Författare:
Lassenius Y
Email: yvonne.lassenius@hdo.fi
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 34
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 07083930
Sammanfattning
In the focus of this article are the
results from a study concerning
teachers in multicultural classrooms
in vocational education. In
2005, about 114.000 foreigners
lived in Finland.
The purpose of the study was to
describe the teacher’s everyday
life in the multicultural classroom
of vocational nursing education.
The purpose was also to attain
knowledge about the teachers’
view of their own competence
development.
The theoretical frame was based
on theories concerning multicultural
education.
The empirical material was collected
during 2000 and 2001
through interviews, participating
observations and a questionnaire.
The results show that the teachers
feel unprepared and unsure of
their task regarding teaching of
integrated groups. Consequently,
the teachers wish to receive more
knowledge in cultural matters.
The analysis shows, however, that
the need for knowledge is not as
large as the need to transform the
attitude of the teachers towards
immigrant students. The teachers
possessed a fairly good level of
affective competence, but a need
for developing the level of behavioural
and cognitive competences
was identified. All three areas
of cultural competence are vital,
in order to develop a multicultural
educational institution.