Multicultural education: cultural space among public  university students in Malaysia

Hanifah Mahat

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Type :	article
Subject :	LB2300 Higher Education
Main Author :	Hanifah Mahat
Additional Authors :	Samsudin Suhaili Zalina Hashim Yazid Saleh Nasir Nayan Nur Nadia Lukmanulhakim
Title :	Multicultural education: cultural space among public university students in Malaysia

Place of Production :	Tanjong Malim
Publisher :	Fakulti Sains Kemanusiaan
Year of Publication :	2019
Corporate Name :	Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

The article aims to examine cultural diversity levels and problems among students in Malaysian public universities (PU) covering six cultural diversity criteria, namelyethnicity, language, religion, gender, socioeconomic status as well as mental and physical abilities. Respondents consisted of 330 students who had met two requirements: coming from different varieties of cultural backgrounds and were students of semester three and above. The research instrument used was a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire consisted of 30 item questions. The findings showed that Cronbach's alpha value showed strong reliability of more than 0.7. Actual study findings showed that the language, gender and religion criteria were at high; medium level for mental and physical abilities and ethnicity criteria; low level for socioeconomic status criterion. As for the problems of cultural diversity, all six criteria showed low level. Correlational relationship between the problems of cultural diversity criteria also demonstrated that each criterion had a weak significant relationship between the overall cultural diversity with an r value of less than 0.29 (p

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