2024, Vol.17, No.1

The Journal of Multicultural Society 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.59

pISSN : 2005-2553 / eISSN : 2671-7700
https://journal.kci.go.kr/sims

Numerous studies focusing on economic factors such as instability, unemployment, and recession tend to link these with intolerant attitudes toward minorities. However, political variables are equally influential. Individuals with high political consciousness, who are capable of empathetic understanding, and who possess diverse experiences are more likely to be inclusive of minorities. This study analyzes the correlation betweenpolitical variables and inclusiveness toward minorities and confirms that politically aware individuals tend to be more inclusive. This underscores the importance of considering political factors in promoting inclusiveness toward minorities and highlights the role of political education and engagement in enhancing the understanding and acceptance of social minorities. The finding also underscores the need to support diverse political activities to foster active participants in a democratic society.

This study investigated the structural relationships among self-advocacy, multicultural competencies, and social justice advocacy competencies for elementary, middle, and high school teachers responses were collected from 707 teachers nationwide, and a model of the relationships between variables was analyzed. The are as follows. First, a significant positive correlation was found among the three variables. Second, the fit of the model which established that multicultural competencies mediated the relationship between self-advocacy and social justice advocacy competencies was good. Additionally, the analysis showed that the direct effect of self-advocacy on social justice advocacy competencies and the indirect effect of self-advocacy through multicultural competence to social justice advocacy competencies statistically significant. This confirmed that multicultural competencies partially mediate the relationship between self-advocacy and social justice advocacy competencies. Third, this model did not show any differences by gender, working school level, or age group of teachers, indicating that this structural relationship can be generalized to all teachers. This study showed that self-advocacy and multicultural competencies need to be improved in tandem to increase social justice advocacy competencies.

This study analyzes issues in refugee education in Korea by reviewing 50 selected domestic studies using Network Text Analysis (NTA). An analysis was conducted for each period of the 1st to 3rd Basic Plan for Immigration Policies. The results were as follows: “adult education in the context of multiculturalism” and “children's rights and welfare” were issues in period 1, “emphasis on global citizenship education” and “education measures for refugee children” were issues in period 2, and “Korean language education for refugees” and “resettled refugees” were issues in period 3. “Refugee children's rights,” “Social adjustment of refugee children,” and “Korean language curriculum and education policies” were issues in all three periods. These results suggest that1) Ensuring the rights of refugee children and supporting their social adjustment is imperative; 2) Enhancing the effectiveness of policies about Korean language education is necessary; 3) Policymakers should consider the characteristics of various refugees when establishing policies.