KOMPETENSI KEPELBAGAIAN BUDAYA DALAM KALANGAN GURU PELBAGAI ETNIK DI SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEBANGSAAN DI MALAYSIA

Abstract

This study aims to identify the multicultural competency among multi-ethnic teachers in secondary schools in Malaysia. Multicultural competency among teachers were identified by ethnicity, gender, level of education, teaching field, teaching experience, the experience of teaching students from various ethnic and cultural background, and cultural courses or cultural training attended by teachers. Data collection methods used in this study are quantitative method. A total of 514 teachers in the state of Kedah, Penang and Perak involved in answering the questionnaire. Quantitative data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics 22 software. Descriptive analysis were used in this study to indicate the level of multicultural competency among multi-ethnic teachers involved in this study based on mean for each characteristics namely ethnicity, gender, level of education, teaching field, teaching experience, the experience of teaching students from various ethnic and cultural background, and cultural courses or cultural training attended by teachers. The results of this study shows various findings of the multicultural competency based on ethnicity, gender, level of education, teaching experience, the experience of teaching students from various ethnic and cultural background, and cultural courses or cultural training attended by teacher.