The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of early childhood teachers’ multicultural
experiences and fixed ideas on their multicultural teaching efficacy and multicultural education attitude. The
subjects of this study were 289 early childhood teachers working at kindergartens and childcare centers in
G Metropolitan City and J province, and data were collected using a questionnaire asking about
multicultural experiences, multicultural fixed ideas, multicultural teaching efficacy, and multicultural
education attitude. According to the results of this study, multicultural experiences, multicultural fixed
ideas, multicultural teaching efficacy, and multicultural education attitude were partially different according
to kindergarten and childcare teachers’ academic qualification, work experience, teaching experience, and
multicultural education experience. When the effect of early childhood teachers’ multicultural experiences
and fixed ideas on their multicultural teaching efficacy was analyzed, the most influential variables on
teaching efficacy were ‘positive adjective’ among multicultural fixed ideas and ‘media experience’ among
multicultural experiences. In addition, ‘positive adjective,’ ‘media experience’ and ‘experiences of family and
relatives’ were significant variables influencing multicultural education attitude. These results suggest that
early childhood teachers dealing with multicultural young children should be provided with more
opportunities to experience positive multicultural experiences, to contact multicultural family or relatives, or
to have indirect multicultural experiences so that they build more profound and systematic multicultural
understandings.