ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the seven themes to illustrate how topics which are often used in schools can be permeated with multicultural features. They are celebrations, communications, journeys, shelter, homes, food, and hats and head coverings. They illustrate some of the ways that the skills, concepts, and attitudes may be introduced to, and developed with, the children. Celebrations are often used in schools and are often chosen as a suitable vehicle for the first foray into multicultural work. Communications could prove an interesting medium through which to explore bias, innuendo, unconscious manipulation, reinforcement of stereotypes and prejudices, the impartiality or otherwise of the media, and so on. The topic area of Journeys can lead children from familiar starting points towards a deeper understanding of the basic similarities of human life. Homes topics are often used in schools and can be good vehicles for utilizing the children's own experiences in order to emphasize the fundamental commonalities of homes for all humans.
