Multicultural Narratives in Indonesian Education Historiography: Study Discourse-Historical Approach History Textbook of Senior High School

Abstrak

This research tries to trace the multicultural narrations produced by government through
textbooks of history lesson (high school) as compulsory subjects. This research is based on
the theory of multiculturalism which states that multiculturalism is the recognition of
cultural diversity including ethnic, religious, racial and intergroup diversity. On the other
hand this articles attempts to look at the multicultural narrations produced by the
government in the textbooks of historical pursuits and the political context of education in
the production of multicultural narratives.
The multicultural narratives described in the textbook of the history lessons ideally depict
the territory of Indonesia which has a diversity of tribes, religions, race and groups. The
result of this study are expected to find whether the narrative textbooks of history lessons
have revealed historical facts that reflect the diversity of Indonesian society and see how
the political context of education, whether to position the textbook as a way of controlling
the official historical narratives that students, educators and policy makers education.
Keywords: [Multicultural Narratives, History Textbook, Discourse-Historical Approach,
Education Historiography]