Transferability of Multicultural Education from Training to Practice

This study discovered strong transferability of multicultural perservice training content to utilization in teaching. Generally, and across demographic subgroups, multicultural experiences reflected the highest degree of transferability, suggesting that this may be the most effective and meaningful teaching-learning modality with multicultural material. Understandings and skills transferred next highest; and these transfers were more pronounced among older, experienced white teachers with graduate degrees. Attitudes transferred least, and this transfer was strong among relatively young and inexperienced minority teachers who had undergraduate degrees.

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