Civic Education as Vehicle of Multicultural Education in Building Democratic Citizen

DOI

10.2991/acec-18.2018.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

civic competence; civic education; multicultural

Abstract

This study is departed from researcher anxiety toward the lack of Civic Education learning in responding to the needs and condition of multicultural students so it needs Civic Education learning based on multicultural in higher education. As for the aim of this study is to find Civic Education material development and learning design as vehicle of multicultural education in building democratic citizen in higher education. This study used qualitative approach with grounded theory method and the data were obtained by observation, interview, literature study and documentation study techniques. Subject of study consisted of Civic Education and Sociology experts who pay attention to multicultural education study, lecturers and students of Primary School Teacher Education Department, Faculty of Pedagogy, State University of Jakarta. The result of this study revealed that the concept of Civic Education learning implementation as vehicle of multicultural education in Primary School Teacher Education Department, Faculty of Pedagogy, State University of Jakarta can be seen from two aspects, namely: first, material development had been done by integrating some materials related to multiculturalism such as nation integrity, multicultural education concept, relation between multicultural principle and nationalism in Indonesia, concept and essence of multiculturalism seen from philosophical, juridical and empirical aspect. Second, learning design had been arranged systematically, but there are still many learning components which should be developed among others are planning (learning goal, the competences which want to be achieved), learning source and material which do not utilize natural environment and community so its learning strategy and approach should be more varied and innovative. As for the finding result of grounded theory in this study is that the competence which want to be achieved should be based on citizen ability in “living the world life” with some core values which needs to be developed such as open minded, mutual trust, mutual understanding, diversity, mutual respect, living the life together and with others, self national identity and conflict resolution.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Candra Cuga
PY  - 2018/11
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TI  - Civic Education as Vehicle of Multicultural Education in Building Democratic Citizen
BT  - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 160
EP  - 167
SN  - 2352-5398
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