MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AS SEEN IN FORREST CARTER�S THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

• Main Authors: , IGNATIUS INDRA K, , Dr. Nur Saktiningrum, M.Hum.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/134454/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=77045
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

This research primary purpose is to examine the concept and the impact of multicultural education that is seen in The Education of Little Tree. In America, education was utilized as way to assimilate Native Americans into white�s society. Native Americans defied the assimilation by teaching tribal culture to their children. A concept of education, which teaches children to embrace multicultural society, emerged after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement also changed American Studies� theory and method that it explored wider boundaries such as black studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies. This thesis employs American Studies perspective and Historicism theory in order to obtain the purpose of the study. Using American Studies perspective, this research views Native Americans as indigenous people of America. Americas� policies to Native Americans can reflect America�s policies in global context. Using Historicism theory this research is able to uncover the concept and the impact of multicultural education in the novel by viewing the socio-historical context that is referred by the novel and the socio-historical context when the novel was written and then published. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that the concept of multicultural education that is seen in the The Education of Little Tree is similar to the concept that is promoted by the experts of multicultural education. The education that is given by the grandparents promotes cultural pride, knowledge of historical information of a culture, and respect towards other cultures. Furthermore, there are several positive impacts of multicultural education that is seen in The Education of Little Tree, they are: first, children possess cultural pride