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THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBAL

CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURAL PERSONALITY AND

CRITICAL THINKING IN PRESERVICE TEACHERS

Mehmet Melik KAYA, Dumlupnar University, Institute of Educational Sciences,mehmet.kaya@dpu.edu.tr

Multiculturalism is a remarkable concept for disciplines like the economy, education and

psychology, as well as being an important sociological phenomenon particularly for the

countries which are developed and developing. Multiculturalism always exists in countries

referred to as immigrant countries such as the UA, !anada and Australia which cannot assume

the identity of the national state due to the immigrations. "urthermore, advances in

communication and transportation technologies in particular, the argument that national states

reach the end of their lifespan, the erosion of national identity and global human discourses

have begun to increase in recent years well. And also, tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles andworkers have formed the basis of these discourses. All these developments has led to the

emergence of multiculturalism concept that is against all forms of discrimination and uniformity

in society by creating the basis of multiculturalism. #he emergence of multiculturalism and the

situation of the world that becomes a global village have become essential to emerge a portrait

of a citi$en who is sensitive not only to his country but also to the whole world. %t emerged as a

global citi$en in this portrait. #he global citi$en aims to educate people who can look through

the eyes of mankind and universal values by aiming to create global citi$enship besides creating

a sura&national identity. !ritical thinking is a type of thinking that consists of mental processes

such as reasoning, analysis and evaluation. %t is important to be able to look critically in a world

where it has become globali$ed, unstable and the problems have increased. %t is crucial to

educate reasonable citi$ens for a sustainable society by critical thinking. %t has a very important

function in educating good people, good citi$ens, good parents and good managers. 'y thisaspect, critical thinking make a significant contribution to emergence of democracy, tolerance,

universal values and citi$ens who adopt universal values. 'ecause both democracy and

tolerance can only fully come true in a society where reasonable citi$ens can think critically,

that is in an area where there is a public opinion.

#he purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between global citi$enship and

multicultural personality and critical thinking in preservice teachers. #he study group consisted

of ()( preservice teachers who attend different departments of "aculty of *ducation at

+umlupnar University. +ata collection was done through cale Universal !iti$enship,

Multicultural -ersonality uestionnaire and !ritical #hinking +isposition cale. 'ecause the

data exhibited a normal distribution as a result of preliminary analysis, -earson product&moment

correlation analysis of parametric tests and multiple regression analysis were used for dataanalysis. According to the findings, there is positive relationship between critical thinking and

multicultural personality trends and global citi$enship. %n other words, as multicultural

personality scores increased, level of global citi$enship also increased. /r as critical thinking

tendencies decreased, the level of universal citi$enship decreased. %n a society where people

adopt universal values and can think critically, democracy, 0ustice and tolerance become

dominant. And in a globali$ed world where there is no critical thinking, conse1uences of wrong

thinking and wrong decisions will end up with global violence, intolerance, in0ustice and war

that has high destructive power.

Keywords2 3lobal citi$enship, multiculturalism and critical thinking.