Diversity as a Medium to Reinforce Ethnic Tolerance in History Subject in Malaysia

This research aims to observe the effectiveness of using diversity of method as a medium to reinforce ethnic tolerance in the subject of history. Teaching materials and methods are integrated during the experiment to the students in the treatment group in comparison with control group students who were taught conventionally. Diversity methods evaluated in this study are divided into four categories, namely introduction of ideas and information, to test the students' understanding, implementation of integrated value and the talent skills. Ethnic tolerance questionnaire was distributed to the two groups in two stages, namely pre and post test. The results showed integration between diversity methods and teaching materials gave a positive impact on the adoption of elements of ethnic tolerance. Consciousness to communicate and tolerance among female students than male students, so also among the treatment groups, namely mean = 4.16 versus control group mean = 4:47. ANOVA test showed a significant difference aspect of ethnic tolerance F = 811,480 and sig = 0.000 <0.05. Analysis shows a high correlation between the diversity methods towards awareness of ethnic tolerance.