Multicultural Education Based on Local Wisdom as an Alternative Values Education in Early-Childhood Education

DOI

10.2991/icece-16.2017.63How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multicultural education, local wisdom, value education

Abstract

Education today is focused on the goal to establish intelligence, knowledge, personality and intelligence of children in an atmosphere of globalization, on that matter learning activities should directly engage learners with real life by then they will not be isolated and prepared for rapid changes in society. The importance of values' education to be something that cannot be avoided. Values' educations are long-term standards that help a person determine how they should approach a situation or person, which makes it an important component of determining how the future culture interacts and acts. Providing an education on values at a young age can ensure that they are guided by these principles throughout life challenges of education in Indonesia is the impact of globalization, including the heterogeneity of society, the degradation of moral values, and reduced mutual respect. Therefore, we need a new paradigm of education that is ready to face the conditions of social and cultural diversity of Indonesia. Paradigm is meant integrating local wisdom in multicultural education. Local wisdom is needed because Indonesia is a country full of diversity, which is the capital of culture born from the wealth of local knowledge (local wisdom). Through multicultural education based on local wisdom children's awareness to the importance of respecting other people, and different cultures will be nurtured. This article outlines how the development of multicultural education based on local wisdom in learning activities in early-childhood education.

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© 2017, 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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AU  - Nurdinah Hanifah
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