TAKING APART THE MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN CURRICULUM 2013

The multicultural could be understood as the culture variety in a community. In the culture variety has interaction, tolerance, and integration and disintegration. In otherwords, the multicultural is a fact that should be received and made positively by the cultural development. The Discussion of this article produce four conclution. The first conclution is Multicultural education is the education that aims to instill the attitude of sympathy, respect, appreciation, and four of the followers of different religions and cultures. The most important of the multicultural education strategy is not only to give purpose for the students to understand easily the lessons that are learned, but also to increase their awareness to behave humanist, pluralist, and democratic. The second conclution Dimensions and learning-based approach is the dimension of content integration, dimension of knowledge construction, dimension of prejudice reduction, dimension of the same educational / fair (equitable pedagogy), and dimension of empowering school culture and social structure. The Third conclution is the step of developing multicultural-based learning can be done through the analysis of potential factors that set multicultural based learning strategy. And the Fourth conclution is Multicultural Education in Curriculum 2013 is seen in the textbooks that are offered to packaged with the concept and the interesting appearance to the students. The names contained in the old textbooks such as Reason and Wati are no longer appear. The names are replaced with Siti, Lani, Edo, Benny, Dayu, and Udin which are the ethnic and religious representation in Indonesi