Multicultural Awareness of Al-Qur'an Perspective and Prevention of Religious Radicalism-Liberalism

Diversity has existed for a long time. Diversity is not a tool to cause conflict between humans. However, improper multicultural management can lead to conflict. Multicultural awareness is needed for humans with various differences, so that humans can live side by side and respect each other. This study is a normative qualitative through library research. The research is oriented towards discovering the conception of multicultural awareness as the Isyarah of Al-Qur'an. Primary data sources are taken from the Al-Qur'an and secondary data are taken from Tafsir books. This result shows that multicultural awareness in the Al-Qur’an perspective is essentially an attitude of glorifying humans regardless of background differences. A society that has multicultural awareness can be seen from the suitability of its attitude with characteristics and ethics. Multicultural awareness can build wasaṭiyyah attitude. With these characteristics, a person's multicultural awareness will be able to prevent radical-liberal behavior.

Implementasi Pendekatan Multikultural dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Kesadaran Kebhinekaan Menuju Masyarakat Madani

Globalization that happened in Indonesia bring into being the destroyed of cultural value. The multicultural of culture, social, and religion can not be avoided by Indonesian’s society. The one cause of many conflicts that happened in Indonesia is the weakness of understanding and meaningful about cultural ability. The awareness of multicultural in Indonesia did not buried in mind’s Indonesian citizen. The objectives of this article are 1. To know the general illustration about the Indonesian condition of age. 2. To know the strategies effort by multicultural approach to create the awareness of multicultural to concerned at civil society. 3. To know the effect of multicultural approach implementation to create the awareness of Indonesian multicultural. This article created by literature study like books, journals, and research report, news paper, and websites. The process of data analysis is done by descriptive. The process of written is created by the appropriate systematically from observation of problem until the recommendation of suggestion to continuing act. From the result of data analysis we can got the conclusion that multicultural approach implementation in increasing the multicultural awareness to become civil society will growth and develop the tolerances between one cultural with another cultural in Indonesian society so it can create civil society that is right and duty between human is same. Keywords: awareness of multicultural, approach multicultural and civil society.

Enhancing Multicultural Awareness: Understanding the Effect of Community Immersion Assignments in An Online Counseling Skills Course

Counselor education programs provide counselors-in-training (CITs) with courses focused on counseling skill development to increase the CITs’ interpersonal counseling abilities and increase multicultural awareness. The research study presents findings from the author’s exploration of online students’ experiences in an experiential community immersion assignment. For analysis, the data was divided into three timeframes: (a) pre-experience, (b) active-experience, and (c) post-experience. In the pre-experience timeframe two themes emerged: (a) overwhelming nervousness and (b) judgmental thoughts. In the active-experience timeframe two themes emerged: (a) welcoming environment and (b) normalization of the minority population. During the post-experience reflections three common themes emerged: (a) similarities between groups, (b) motivation to create relationships, and (c) increased empathy. The study concluded the participants reported an overall increase in multicultural awareness through their community immersion experiences.

Stereotyping Among Graduate Students in Mental Health Fields: An EEG Study

Counselors are obligated to work effectively with diverse groups, yet human tendencies towards stereotyping and biases can impede counselors’ efforts. Understanding implicit social cognition and factors that might affect it is important because implicit stereotyping and biases can have effects in counselors’ work. In this study we hypothesized that graduate students in mental health fields would show indicators of stereotyping in an implicit experiment. The experiment utilized neural and behavioral dependent measures (N400 event-related potential component and reaction time) to indicate stereotyping. We also hypothesized that mindful observing and multicultural awareness would moderate stereotyping effects. Our first hypothesis was partially supported, as participants showed neural and behavioral markers of stereotyping towards black men and white women. Our hypotheses regarding moderators were not supported, as these stereotyping effects were not moderated by mindful observing or multicultural awareness. Implications for counseling practice and research are discussed.

The representation of cultural values in Korean as a foreign language (KFL) textbook

The representation of cultural values in textbooks is crucial to be examined because learning a foreign language is bound with the culture. Although previous research has quite extensively investigated this issue, much is yet to be explored in the context of Korean as a foreign language learning. This study aims to address the gap by investigating how cultural values are represented in the Korean as a foreign language (KFL) textbook, published by The Korea Foundation for Indonesians. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach was employed to analyze the data. The findings exhibited the representation of cultural values in four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The introduction to the Korean language could be given through cultural recognition. Among the identified cultural values in the textbook, the representation of showing respect to creative products or the results of local culture was more evident than the other categories, followed by showing respect to cultural differences from various ethnic or religious groups and merging with nature and life. However, the representation category of showing respect to indigenous people’s culture was not seen in the textbook. This suggests that the textbook is intended to foster the students’ multicultural awareness in learning Korean as a foreign language.