Socializing Multiculturalism Ideology through Multicultural Education: Potentials in History for High Schools

Abstrak

The formulation of this article was motivated by a classic problem in
Indonesia related to diversity in race, gender, political ideology, religion,
social class which become an obstacle for the creation of social
integration even cause various conflicts, both vertically and horizontally.
Confronted with the issue, then, multicultural education as an attempt to
promote the ideology of multiculturalism, in which there are principles to
uphold fraternity, justice, respect, and acknowledge differences become
very important to be applied in education. Especially for the subjects of
history, it has a big opportunity to do. There are many historical learning
materials that can be used as a foothold to embed the principles of
multiculturalism to students.
Keywords: Multiculturalism, Multicultural Education, History for High Schools