Implementation Of Multicultural Education in Growing Tolerance Between Students in State Elementary School 2 Komet Banjarbaru

Barsihanor Barsihanor,Abdul Hafiz,Galuh Nashrulloh Mayangsari Rofam,Siti Liani,Shalahudin Shalahudin,Muhammad Iqbal Ansari

doi:10.21043/elementary.v9i1.9709

Abstract

AbstractIndonesia is a plural country with various ethnic groups, languages, religion, and culture. This is prone to friction such as conflicts between ethnicities, religion, and so on. This study aimed to know the implementation of multicultural education in growing tolerance between students in state Elementary School 2 Komet Banjarbaru. This study used qualitative approach with case study type of research. The study was done from January 2020 until March 2020. Data was collected by in-depth interview, participant observation, and documentation technique. The informants in this study were 11 samples including the headmaster, teacher, and students. After obtaining the data, analysis was done through the series of reduction, display, and data verification. Meanwhile, validity test was done by triangulation. The result showed that the implementation of multicultural education in growing tolerance between students in state Elementary School 2 Komet Banjarbaru through the school policy regulating that the rights of every student is equal, no obligation for non-Muslim female students to wear hijab, no obligation for non-Muslim students to attend Islamic religious activities, and religion subjects are customized to each religion, Muslim students learn Islamic studies, while non-Muslim students learn about their own religion, and they are free to learn religion studies in their own house of worship

Highlights

Indonesia is a nation and country whose culture, ethnicity, tradition, religion, and languages are various (Suprapti, 2018)
The study of implementation of multicultural education in State Elementary School 2 Komet Banjarbaru used qualitative approach, which was a study that aimed to understand holistically the phenomenon about what happened on the subject, such as behavior, perception, action, motivation, and so on, by describing it into language and words on specific scientific context in any scientific method (Moleong, 2012)
The case that has been studied in this study was the implementation of inclusive education in State Elementary School 2 Komet Banjarbaru

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Introduction

Indonesia is a nation and country whose culture, ethnicity, tradition, religion, and languages are various (Suprapti, 2018). Those differences are the challenge to reach the education goal (Ibrahim, 2013). In education strategy frame of a plural country, culture-based education urges the construction process of imaginative, metaphoric, creative, and awareness of culture. The use of local culture (ethnic) in culture-based education cannot be separated from the various cases occurred in every component of education from the early preparation to the implementation. Some of the early cases in culture-based education on early preparation stage are: (Faiqoh, 2015)

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