Multicultural Education: Between Freedom and Tolerance

DOI

10.2991/acec-18.2018.160How to use a DOI?

Keywords

conflict; multicultural education; students; tolerance

Abstract

The Indonesian nation is a pluralistic nation of different tribes, races, languages, religions, customs and cultures. This nation's pluralism can be seen as a gift as well as a great challenge for the Indonesian people to have a very large tolerance. Multicultural learning is present in education and is expected to produce a generation of insightful and knowledgeable about multiculturalism. This research aim is to improve students in class X in SMAN 5 in Bandung city to place themselves wisely as a multicultural society. Through the classroom education research method to explore skills in making decisions and providing alternatives to multicultural problems in maintaining integration and harmony. The results prove that students in class X in SMAN 5 in Bandung city are low in prejudice towards diversity in class, showing a more sensitive and open attitude towards the views of others. They are also able to think critically, because they are more open, flexible, and respectful of different opinions.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Neiny Ratmaningsih
AU  - Aim Abdulkarim
AU  - Dina Siti Logayah
AU  - Ratna Fitria
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Multicultural Education: Between Freedom and Tolerance
BT  - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 713
EP  - 714
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.160
DO  - 10.2991/acec-18.2018.160
ID  - Ratmaningsih2018/11
ER  -