The Evaluation of the Cultural Diversity Effect by Using Picture Books with a Preschool Teacher

Table 2

Summary of participants’ classroom information.

Characteristics	Number	Percentage
Number of students
11–15	1	14.29
15–20	3	42.86
20–25	3	42.86
Number of students who belong to cultural minority groups^1
0	2	28.57
1–5	5	71.14

¹Within this research context, the term cultural minority group is most appropriately defined by Wirth (1945) as any category of people who, because of their cultural characteristics, are singled out from the other members of the society and are subject to unequal treatment and collective discrimination. Such examples might be students with hearing disabilities, students belonging to nonHan ethnic groups, and students living in single-parent families.