10.1177/0022022105275964JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGYPerkins, Mebert / EARLY CHILDHOOD MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION EFFICACY OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN A Domain-Specific Approach

The efficacy of multicultural curricula for the development of “racial expertise ” was examined in 79 pre-school children. Children in preschools with multicultural and emergent curricula (n = 43) were compared with children in preschools with multicultural but no emergent curricula (n = 20) and children in preschools with neither multicultural nor emergent curricula (n = 16) in their responses to the Multi-Response Racial Attitude Scale and domain-specific measures of racial groups knowledge. Results suggest children in preschools with both multicultural and emergent curricula have more domain-specific racial knowledge but not less biased attitudes than other preschool children