Urgensi pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam berbasis multikultural di sekolah

Abstract

The theology subject taught at the school tends merely to reinforce the faith and its achievements to go to heaven without consciousness for having dialogue with other religions. These conditions make religious education very exclusive and intolerant. Whereas, nowadays pluralism era, religious education must be done the philosophicalparadigmatic reorientation of how to make students understand about religion more inclusive, pluralistic, multicultural, humanistic, dialogue, persuasive, contextual,substantive and socially active. Therefore, in this study emphasizes the importance of thedevelopment of multicultural education in schools through a number of Islamic religiouseducation materials. Pelajaran teologi di sekolah cenderung diajarkan sekedar untuk memperkuat keimanan dan pencapaiannya menuju surga tanpa dibarengi dengan kesadaran berdialog dengan agama-agama lain. Kondisi inilah yang menjadikan pendidikan agama sangat eksklusif dan tidak toleran. Padahal di era pluralisme dewasa ini, pendidikan agama mesti melakukan reorientasi filosofis-paradigmatik tentang bagaimana membangun pemahaman keberagamaan peserta didik yang lebih inklusif-pluralis,multikultural, humanis, dialogis-persuasif, kontekstual, substantif dan aktif sosial.