Multicultural Citizenship Education in Indonesia: The Case of a Chinese Christian School

• Main Author: HOON, Chang Yau
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Christianity; citizenship; education; multiculturalism; young population; Indonesia; Chinese; Asian Studies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1341; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2597/viewcontent/MulticulturalCitizenshipEducationIndonesia_2013_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 citiz...