Development of School Culture

Acceptance Abstrak for Global Summit Education 2013 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL CULTURE THROUGHT MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

Ria Putri Palupijati

Faculty of Education

State University of Yogyakarta

ria.palupijati@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Various cases of violence, conflict and prejudice that occurred between ethnic, tribal and culture has been threatened the nation integration. School not only serves as a transfer of knowledge but also to transfers of value. By instill and civilize social values in the community, the school is expected to form the character for mutual respect and tolerance among human beings. Process instill and civilize social values in schools is reflected in the school culture. School culture can serve as reproduction, transformation, instilling, and civilizing of social values in society. Whereas in the school environment, there will be a lot of differences in the understanding of social values due to differences in ethnic ,race and culture of each child. Therefore, the development of school culture need multicultural education which can accustom the students to understand the different values in each culture.

The method of writing this paper is qualitative descriptive through the study of literature. Literature study can be obtained from various literature sources. Then, the author collected data, process data, analyze data and draw conclusions.

The development of the school culture through multicultural education, specifically with introduction and understanding of cultural diversity, the school can (1) create a physical environment (artifacts can be observed) according to students' needs (2) creates an environment (artifacts that can’t be observed) so as to create a harmonious school community that upholds the values of pluralism and (3) create a beliefs values which conscious of heterogeneity in a social group.

Keywords: School Culture, Multicultural Education