Multiculturalism in Schools: A Case Study at MAN Insan Cendekia Gorontalo

摘要

This paper aims at examining patterns of student management and interaction. The study employed a mixed approach to describe student interaction as well as touncover, understand, and describe the student management and interaction patterns depicted in the sociometry at MAN Insan Cendekia. The results show that 1) the management and student patterns have begun to be applied when the students are accepted as new students until the end of the study, ranging from student orientation, academic activities in the classroom, setting of dormitories, religious, and student activities. The pattern of management focuses on the academic level, and ethnic diversity, which is arranged for all groups, whose members vary, and in many kinds of activities, i.e., different academic levels and different ethnicity. All elements in madrasah's social structure play a role in the formation of the meaning of togetherness among students. A social process which is a development cycle that show the social structure, prejudice, discrimination can bee liminated and the conflict of values can be maintained; 2)the bases that unite the students are the age and similar formal status of students. Symbols are created through the provision of meaning or value to the management of madrasah that creates the patterns of interaction among students. Interaction patterns formed by the management is applied, i.e., a pattern that indicates the passage of the ideology of multiculturalism.