The Implementation of Multicultural Education at Senior High Schools

A Case Study

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210715.111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multicultural education, reformation of education

Abstract

This research aims to get the complete understanding and comprehensive data about the implementation of multicultural education at one of senior high schools in Palembang. The data were collected by observing, interviewing, and documenting. The data analysis used was descriptive qualitative analysis. The results showed that the school was the portrait of a multicultural society and had implemented the concept of multiculturalism. However, it was not implied in the curriculum. The ideas are togetherness, openness and respecting one another. School conducts efforts by giving a chance to whole students from all ethnicities and religions to get opportunities in joining the program. The learning process in the classroom was conducted democratically. It would create a comfortable condition as the effect of the implementation of the same treatment to whole students. Hence, the usage of teaching materials was not based on a book from the publisher. It was used to enlarge students’ understanding to develop students’ ability to evaluate, comprehend, and appreciate diversity.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Nyayu Khodijah
AU  - Sukirman
AU  - Amalia Hasanah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/17
TI  - The Implementation of Multicultural Education at Senior High Schools
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Asian Education Symposium 2020 (AES 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 545
EP  - 549
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210715.111
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210715.111
ID  - Khodijah2021
ER  -