PENDIDIKAN ISLAM MULTIKULTURAL

Abstract

Multicultural education does  not mean merely  celebrating diversity. Especially  if the existing  society  is still full of discrimination and racist. In such a case, multicultural education is more appropriately directed as an allocation to create a tolerant free society. Multiculturalism education is intended to respond to the phenomenon of ethnic, socio- cultural conflicts that often arise in the midst of multicultural society, multicultural faces in this country up to now like a fire in the chaff that one day can lead to the temperature of political, religion, social culture that heats up, which allowing the conflict  to reappear. Multicultural education can be used  at both the descriptive and  normative levels, which illus- trates the issues and issues of education related to the multicultural community. He further includes an understanding of considerations of educational policies and strategies in multicultural societies that clearly cover subjects such as: tol- erance, themes of ethno-cultural differences and religion: the dangers of discrimination, conflict resolution, democracy and plurality , universal humanity and so forth