International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
Problems and Countermeasures in Multicultural Education in Primary and
Middle Schools in China
Yitong Liu a Dae-Dong Hahn b *
a b
College of Education, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
Abstract
As globalization speeds up in the early period of the 21 st century, multicultural education becomes more and
more important in the world, especially in China which has 56 ethnicities and increasing number of students
come from all over the world today. This paper starts with summarizing the present multicultural education
situations in primary and middle schools in China, and then discusses the major problems in such areas as
course design, curriculum, and instructional methods employed in multicultural education in primary and
secondary schools, and finally proposes the possible pathways to solve those problems. It expected that special
and effective models in multicultural education should be established in China in the future to fit for the rapid
development of multicultural education and human society.
Keywords: Multicultural education, curriculum, teaching methods, primary and middle schools, China
E-mail address: saraliuyt@163.com ddhahn@pusan.ac.kr
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