ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with the practical applications of multi-cultural education in the primary school. It endeavours to show both how stimulating this approach is to all of school life and the enormous amount of rich, varied material that can be employed to achieve the aim of a multi-cultural/anti-racist education. The book also demonstrates how primary teachers can develop the work that they are already presenting to the children by including British ethnic and cultural diversity, and influences from the rest of the world, within that work. It also uses topic work as the vehicle for most of the taught aspects of multi-cultural education. The book then divides multi-cultural education into three spheres: Themes for topic work, Aspects of personal and social development, and Strands of interweaving components.
