Multicultural Educational Practice: Ethnography Study at SMP Tumbuh Yogyakarta Indonesia

Multicultural problems from the perspective of the Indonesian people, whose sources are from the diversity of the archipelago, are occurred for so many years. Multicultural awareness must be instilled and become a part of human consciousness in various aspects of life. One of the roles of education is to foster multicultural awareness as an effort to minimize the problems of school-age children. Multicultural education is an alternative to learning in the educational process that helps individuals grow and develop according to their cultural context and environment so that the learning process does not deprive individuals of the experience of everyday life. The purpose of this study was to explore multicultural education practices to foster a sense of respect for differences. The results showed some practice that influence the study were as follow: 1) Multicultural education emerged from the idealism of educators; 2) multiculturalism education in growing schools carried out through namely; 3) the contribution approach, the additive approach, the transformation approach, and the social action approach.