台灣是一個多元族群的社會，隨著新移民家庭及其子女的增加，突顯台灣目前多元文化議題的重要性。本文的研究目的有四：一是分析多元文化課程的意涵，二是探討多元文化課程的設計模式，三是分析九年一貫課程社會學習領域中有關多元文化的內涵，四是設計「多元文化課程設計」之實例，提供給國中小教師在進行多元文化教育議題時之參考。

In Taiwan, the issue of multiculture is very important because there are more and more new immigrants and their children. There are four goals for this research: (1) to understand the definition of multicultural curriculum, (2) to describe designing models of multicultural curriculum, (3) to analyze contents of multicultural curriculum in social studies, and (4) to provide an example for integrating multiculture into curriculum design of social studies.