The Development of Oriented on Multicultural Islamic Religious Education in School

Abstract

This article describes the development of oriented on multicultural Islamic religious education in school. Multicultural-oriented religious education is a vehicle to give awareness to learners about the people of Indonesia is a plural society that has cultural diversity, beliefs, languages, races and tribes. Therefore, demanding a multicultural education, in order to anticipate the occurrence of a sharp conflict among the existing differences. Multicultural education as an education on cultural diversity in responding to demographic changes and environmental cultures of particular communities, even the world as a whole. The values of Islamic religious education with a multicultural insight have a significant influence in the effort to form patterns of religious understanding among learners. The values are not only contained in the curriculum content of Islamic religious education, but also reflected from the understanding of teachers applied with the approach and methods used in the process of Islamic religious education. Positive views and understanding for religious teachers on pluralism and multiculturalism in turn will be able to transform patterns of understanding Indications of failure is inseparable from the role of religious education teachers in providing religious understanding to learners.