Diversity and Hungarian teachers’ views on nationalism, migration and multiculturalism

ABSTRACT This study was carried out among teachers in Budapest in 2016–17. It aimed at revealing teachers’ views on multiculturalism and multicultural education, together with their conceptualisations of migrants. When constructing a framework of interpretation, we believed that views on multicultural education and attitudes concerning migrants would be interrelated with teachers’ national identity, as well as their previous experiences with diversity. The results of the questionnaire research based on a sample of 368 pre-service and in-service teachers demonstrate that views on, and attitudes towards multiculturalism are strongly correlated with those on migration. The sense of threat seems to be interrelated with essentialist national identity, which, on the other hand, has a negative relationship with respondents’ experiences of ethnic diversity.