期刊名称：Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education
印刷版ISSN：1938-5919
电子版ISSN：1938-5927
出版年度：2004
卷号：22
期号：01
出版社：National Association of Teacher Educators for Family and Consumer Sciences
摘要：Student populations within family and consumer sciences education
classrooms, like our nation, continue to grow increasingly diverse. Teachers’
attitudes are critical to planning and implementing educational programs which
meet the needs of learners from diverse backgrounds. This study used the
Pluralism and Diversity Attitude Assessment (PADAA) to investigate family and
consumer sciences teachers’ attitudes toward issues related to multicultural
education. The PADAA used four subscales (Appreciate Cultural Pluralism,
Value Cultural Pluralism, Implement Cultural Pluralism, and Uncomfortable with
Cultural Pluralism) to describe respondents’ attitudes toward cultural pluralism
and diversity. Family and consumer sciences teachers tended to reflect positive
attitudes about the issues examined. However, they did express resistance toward
classroom implementation of cultural pluralism as well as uncomfortable feelings
about diversity. Results from this study will be useful to preservice and inservice
career and technical educators, teacher educators, and school administrators
attempting to understand and expand multicultural perspectives within career and
technical education.
