Abstract Multicultural Education Values in Literature (original) (raw)

Literature consists of several parts, among others: novel, short story, serialized story, drama, and poetry. Among the various parts of the literature, the authors focus on just one section, namely poetry. Poetry utilizes vocabulary with fairly frugal, but contains a value that is very dense and diverse, such as education value of religious multicultural , education value of aesthetic multicultural, education value of ethical multicultural, and education value of philosophical multicultural. However, this paper only discusses the philosophical value of multicultural education. Philosophical value of multicultural education is limited to the aspect of the principle of life, self-esteem, and hard work with data sources of poetry Aspar Paturusi, with the title of the book is a collection of poems Perahu Badik: Membaca Laut (Reading the Sea). Aspar Paturusi is one of the national actors who lives in Jakarta. He was born on April 10, 1943 in Bulukumba, South Sulawesi. His work, in addition to the actor is also writes books of literature, such as drama, novels and poetry. To reveal the value of multicultural education in the aspects mentioned above, so it is used a hermeneutic approach of Paul Ricoeur.