Integrating Pluralism and Multicultural Education to Prevent Radicalism at Universitas Muhammadiyah Kupang

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal how to integrate pluralism and multicultural education to prevent radicalism at Universitas Muhammadiyah Kupang. This qualitative research used purposive sampling technique to select the informants between students and lecturers. The data collections were analysed by using the Creswell method, such as data collection, organization, reading, memo, description, classification, interpretation, and visualization. The study showed that integrating pluralism and multicultural education was conducted through selecting content integration, using cooperative learning method, constructing knowledge, reducing prejudices, and evaluating the learning process. As a result, the outcome of the learning process shows that radicalism can be prevented through integrating pluralism and multicultural education into curriculum of sociology education.

Keywords

• pluralism
• multicultural education
• radicalism