Religious Education and Multiculturalism

Religious Education and Multiculturalism

Not surprisingly, if a product that marginalized communities will always adorn forum student brawls, forcing the will, and other social systems aberration. For the present, education was transformed into disappointment and arena media collective social awareness about the injustices that have curb, and indirectly not appreciate its existence. There is one thing that would have the same big hand upon the occurrence of such tragic events, such as the development of educational tradition pendoktrinan material and cultural inheritance, without the spirit of liberation to respond to alternative solutions to the social problems that exist.

Measuring Multiculturalism in Religious Education?

Not hard to imagine how vulnerable Indonesia with social conflict because of the diversity of cultural, ethnic, language, and religion are about 17,500 islands in a 3200 mile ocean. Indonesia is now the nation of more than 200 million, the majority of Muslims, with the recognition of four religions other than Islam formally.

Hinduism is mostly located in Bali and at the east end of the island of Java as Tengger. Catholic mostly settled in East Nusa Tenggara island of Flores particularly, Kei islands in Maluku and Central Java. Protestants tend to spread in Papua, North Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Central Maluku and Maluku the southeast. While Confucius cu commonly held by ethnic Chinese, settled in large cities as well as inland.

Under such conditions,

Under such conditions, it should also happen in Islamic educational institutions, both in Indonesia and globally localities in other areas. In the face of the times, the existence of Islamic education instead used to keep religious normativity. Islamic education is still stuck with the conventional patterns ala Ta'limul Muta'allim az Zarnuji essay.

Learners in bondage forced to submit a single truth of educators. This resulted in a model pattern of intelligence "hoard of facts" to memorize, without any given space or just relate to analyzing social problems. As a result, leading to the establishment of stagnant ideas of truth for generations without having bonding compatibility with the times. There is only one answer and the truth as taught teachers to suit their own group so that the group has the right to mislead others. In the end the building of religious traditions in the form of theology is a problem in the community.