The examination of the relationships among teachers' multicultural self efficacy, school climate and teachers'attitudes towards refugee students

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the teachers' perception of multicultural self-efficacy, school climate and teacher attitudes in the education of refugee students and examine according to some variables. This study was designed as a correlational study. The sample of the study consisted of 450 teachers employed in primary and secondary schools from Kastamonu and Karabük cities and districts of them in 2018-2019 education year. In order to gather data for the study, Self-efficacy Perception Scale for Multicultural Education, School Climate Survey and Refugee Student Attitude Scale were used. Results revealed that teachers' perceptions of multicultural competence, attitudes towards refugees, and perceptions on the supportive size of school climate are high; While teachers' perceptions of multicultural self-efficacy and their attitudes towards refugees do not differ according to gender, professional seniority, school term, educational status, branch and socio-economic environment variables, there are differences in sub-dimensions of school climate; according to the in-service training variable while there is no difference in school climate, there is difference in multicultural self-efficacy perceptions and attitudes; there were positive relationships between all study variables; multicultural self-efficacy, school climate and in-service training variables were significant predictors of teacher attitudes towards refugees.