ISLAMIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT BASED ON MULTICULTURAL VALUES<br />GHAITH SALEH MAHDI<br />AL-MUSTAQBAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE<br />[email protected]<br />Multicultural values based curriculum development is important because of the curriculum can be understood in a narrow sense and wide. In a narrow sense the curriculum is taught to learners, while the wider curriculum and all good learning experience in school/campus or outside the school/campus that has been programmed. The curriculum based on the values of the multicultural society aimed to appreciate all the diversity, creating peace, protect human rights and develop democracy. In the context of Islamic Education. curriculum content must be able to accommodate perspectives of many classes. At least, it is to introduce to learners that Islam consists of many perspectives that expected there is no element of truth is thus blame or consider another is not part of Islam.<br />Curriculum for Islamic Education with multicultural basis should pay attention to the basic principles of the Islamic education curriculum reference, including: First, oriented on Islam, including the teachings and values. Then each related to the curriculum, including the philosophy, goals, the contents, teaching methods, ways of treatment and the relationships occurred in the educational institutions that based on the teachings and values Islam. Second, universal principles contained in the components of the curriculum. Third, the principle of relative balance between the goals and of the contents of the curriculum. Fourth, the principle of relevance between the needs of the individual and the need for social, the suitability of the education in the environment, relevance to the life of the present and will come, relevance to the demands of the work. Fifth, principle of justice with attention to individual differences among<br />learners, difference from personalities side and the difference from social factor. Sixth, principle of flexible through how to adjust themselves with the development of science and technology and the gift of a kind of movement that provide little freedom in the act, good-oriented flexibility on the election of the education program and in developing teaching programs. Seventh, the principle of integration between subjects, the experiences and activities that are contained in the curriculum as well as with the integration between curriculum content with the needs of the students and the needs of the community. Eighth, principle of effective and efficient in the use of supporting resources that can provide a positive impact on the development of the learners.