Diversidad cultural en el aulaGrupos de discusión
ISSN: 0212-4068
Year of publication: 2005
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Pages: 23-40
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de investigación educativa, RIE
Abstract
This paper presents the main results and conclusions carried out among teaching students. The work is a deep study of the actitudes the students have about cultural diversity. Cultural diversity characterizes our current society as a feature which increase in the near future, according to experts, due to the increment of immigrants in our country. This research project is part of a larger survey in which we have used an attitude scale and a semantic differential, built by us, and the group discussion as instruments of gathering data. In this article we only present the results obtained through the group discussion. The most relevant conclusions of this study shows that students do not reject cultural diversity by they have a very poor consciousness about it. However, in general terms their attitude is rather positive.