The Use of Cinematherapy Techniques in Developing Religious Tolerance in Students with Multicultural Education Insights

The purpose of this article is to describe the development of religious tolerance of students through group counseling activities with cinema therapy techniques with multicultural education insight (experimental studies at Xaverius Bukittinggi High School). This study uses a quantitative approach with quasi experimental designs pretest and posttests. The population of this research was the tenth grade students of Xaverius Bukittinggi High School Xaverius and the sampling technique used was purposive sampling. The steps in this research were; conducting preliminary studies, literature studies, collecting data, analyzing data (by using normality test, homogeneity test and t test) and making conclusions. The results of this study proves that the development of religious tolerance for the students’ of SMA Xaverius Bukittinggi in general is considered in good categories. From the results of this study it was proved that the development of student religious tolerance through group counseling activities was effective by using cinema therapy techniques. The results of this study can be used as consideration for developing a counselling program for the development of religious tolerance in high schools.