Examining teachers' views about respect for diversities at early childhood period and study of validity and reliability of the scale of respect for diversities

The main goal of the research is to determine the views of pre-school teachers and to develop ?A Scale of Respect for Diversities? based on those determined views. To do that, the views of the pre-school teachers affiliated to Ministry of National Education in Istanbul boroughs of Besiktas, Sisli, Bakirkoy, Kadikoy and Umraniye have been taken during spring ? summer semesters in the academic year 2006 ? 2007. The study of validity reliability of ? The Scale of Respect for Diversities? has been completed assessing data obtained and with pre-school students receiving education in Ataturk Primary School affiliated to Istanbul borough of Kadikoy during summer semester in the academic year 2006 ? 2007. Teachers? survey sheets have been sent to the members of the university studying on pre-school education in different universities and rearranged. For structure validity, the reliability co-efficient has been calculated being applied to the groups falling outside of the research sampling. 685 sheets of the applied survey have been assessed. Collected data has been analysed by frequency and percentage calculations. According to the variables of the associations that the teachers have been affiliated to, gender, age, educational status, length of service in profession, and the age group that they give education to, it has been tested that if there is a meaninful difference between the people or associations that they can cooperate with in order to make a change in accordance with the activities in which they give a place to the concepts of diversity in their programmes and the concept of diversity. ?The Scale of Respect for Diversities? has been sent to the members of the university studying on pre-school education in different universities and rearranged. The scale is applied to 122 pre-school students receiving education in Ataturk Primary School in Istanbul borough of Kadikoy. Data obtained has been tested by statistical tests in order to provide the validity and the reliability of the scale. It has been decided to keep all of the items that have taken a place in the scale.