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본 연구는 일반 초등학생들의 다문화 친구에 대한 인식과 평가, 그들의 국가 정체성 및 인종선호도를 조사하여 인종 및 다문화인에 대한 고정관념과 편견이 있는지 알아보고자 하였다. 그리고 인종편견 관련 이론인 발달론적 집단간이론과 사회정체성 발달이론에 근거하여 단일민족 사고, 자민족중심주의, 인종배제주의, 다문화친구에 대한 개방성, 자아존중감간에 어떤 관계가 있는지도 조사하였다. 자료는 서울과 강원도에서 4, 6학년 718명의 일반학생들에게 질문지와 검사지를 실시하여 수집하였다. 자료분석 결과 많은 일반 학생들이 다문화 친구들을 낮게 평가하고, 차별하고 있으며, 그들을 한국인으로 인식하지 않으며, 단일민족 사고가 강한 것으로 밝혀졌고, 이는 자민족중심주의, 인종배제주의, 다문화친구에 대한 개방성, 자아존중감과 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 분석결과를 중심으로 하여 다문화 교육에 주는 시사점과 제언을 논의하였다.


The purpose of this study was to investigate non-multicultural elementary school students' racial attitudes and discrimination, conception of ethnic identity of multicultural students, and to examine the relationships among ethnocentrism, openness toward multicultural students, self-esteem, ethnic exclusionism, and single-blooded race idea based on the Developmental intergroup theory and Social identity development theory. Subjects were 718(boys 362, girls 356) elementary school students of 4th and 6th, sampled at Seoul and Kangwon-do Province. They took ethnocentrism(5 items), openness toward multicultural students(23 items), self-esteem(16 items), and ethnic exclusionism(6 items) scales and questionnaire. The results were as follows:First, many students thought Korean as single-blooded race, and had ethnic prejudice. Their ethnic preferences varied according to the country. Second, there were few significant differences between the sex, grade, and location of the schools in terms of ethnic prejudice, single-blooded race conception of Korean, ethnic identity of multicultural students, ethnocentrism, openness toward multicultural students, self-esteem, and ethnic exclusionism. Third, statistically significant relationships were found among ethnocentrism, openness toward multicultural students, self-esteem, ethnic exclusionism, and single-blooded race idea of Korean. Multicultural education of elementary school needs anti-prejudice education in depth in terms of ethnic prejudice, ethnic identity of multicultural students, single-blooded race conception of Korean. Schools should teach Korean as not the single-blooded race but the civilized race in terms of the ethnic identity.