Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2013
Abstract
This study investigates how multicultural citizenship education is taught in a Chinese Christian school in Jakarta, where multiculturalism is not a natural experience. Schoolyard ethnographic research was deployed to explore the reality of a ‘double minority’ — Chinese Christians — and how the citizenship of this marginal group is constructed and contested in national, school, and familial discourses. The article argues that it is necessary for schools to actively implement multicultural citizenship education in order to create a new generation of young adults who are empowered, tolerant, active, participatory citizens of Indonesia. As schools are a microcosm of the nation-state, successful multicultural citizenship education can have real societal implications for it has the potential to render the idealism enshrined in the national motto of ‘Unity in Diversity’ a lived reality.
Keywords
Christianity, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, young population, Indonesia, Chinese
Discipline
Asian Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Volume
44
Issue
3
First Page
490
Last Page
510
ISSN
0022-4634
Identifier
10.1017/S0022463413000349
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation
HOON, Chang Yau.(2013). Multicultural Citizenship Education in Indonesia: The Case of a Chinese Christian School. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 44(3), 490-510.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1341
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463413000349
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