Multicultural Education for Early Childhood

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multicultural education, early childhood

Abstract

Indonesia is the country with a diversity of cultures. The cultural diversity makes Indonesia as one nation in the world which have a rich language, ethnicity, and religion. The Motto of diversity is Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, the meaning "unity in diversity". Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is not just slogans but more than that, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is a spirit which must be assimilated in mutual love, accept differences, and respect. By image diversity of culture can be said Indonesia as the multicultural country. The base of multicultural is democratic and humanitarian values. The human values will emerge and embedded through the provision of education. Education is the process to create the quality human in accordance with nature and culture held. Therefore, the beginning implanting of multicultural education is a right educate for created the quality human. The function of multicultural education is educating children for learning to live together in peace and accept differences in life.

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© 2017, 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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