The Role of Soft Skills and Multicultural Attitudes in Enhancing Teaching Quality in Colombian Higher Education

This paper will explore whether teachers' multicultural ideology, soft skills, fanaticism in national cultural ideology, and intergroup contact, controlled by other variables, are related to their multicultural attitudes. This objective is developed and estimated from correlation analysis and using the method of ordinary least squares, to verify how multicultural ideology, fanaticism in national cultural ideology, soft skills, and intergroup contact, controlled for some sociodemographic variables, generate effects on the multicultural attitudes of teaching in a Colombian higher education institution with high-quality accreditation. The study reveals that soft skills and multicultural ideology positively influence teachers' multicultural attitudes, while intergroup contact with different ethnic groups shows a negative correlation. The data is analyzed with primary information from 199 professors from the Institution mentioned above, a context with branches and sections with cultural diversity, in an emerging country, with very low national pride.