Multikultural Menurut Banks

Multicultural

Multicultural education is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of education. According to Banks and Banks (2004: xi) defines multicultural education as follows:

multicultural education is a field of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social class, and cultural groups. One of its important goals is to help students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society and to interact, negotiate, and communicate with peoples from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community that works for the common good.

Multicultural education is as a process of preparing students for meaningful participation in a diverse world and for assisting them in affirming their own unique cultural backgrounds while respecting others.