The Role of Multicultural Based Learning for Increasing the Competence of Students

Abstract

Indonesia is a country that has ethnic, religious, racial and cultural diversity. Multicultural education needs to be applied in the learning process, there are many positive impacts resulting from multicultural-based education. The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of multicultural-based learning for increasing student competence. Literature review was used in writing this article, using the last 10 years of journals, namely 2011 - 2021. The research results are presented in a qualitative descriptive manner and through an in-depth analysis stage. The results showed that through multicultural-based learning in the school environment, it was able to improve students' critical thinking skills, students' character formation, and students' emotional intelligence. Based on the results of these studies, it is necessary to innovate or implement multicultural-based learning in order to form the desired accompaniment impact from the teacher as a designer in the learning process. Keywords: Competence of learners; multicultural; learning resources.