PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL DALAM PENGEMBANGAN LITERASI INFORMASI DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

Abstract

Indonesia is a nation with high level of diversity, the last decades faced on many conflicts with different backgrounds, is that about differences in religion, ethnicity or culture. In this case, religious education failing in operating one of its roles which to fulfill Indonesian society to create harmony and peace. One factor of the failure religious education is the lack of value investment that has the spirit of multicultural education. Thus, efforts towards the value investment of multicultural education in educational institutions can’t be negotiated, including universities. This paper try to describes and analyzes value investment of multicultural education in Islamic higher school in Indonesia with its focus of study as follows: 1) Principles of value investment multicultural education; 2) Implementation of value investment multicultural education; and 3) Implications of value investment multicultural education towards tolerance of student manner.