Introduction

Abstract

This book contributes to existing literature on multicultural education by instilling in readers a broader perspective to multicultural education than that which is conveyed in other books. It does this by promoting a questioning disposition to the things that people often take for granted, such as by engaging them in reflecting on whether the curriculum that they are presented in textbooks is representative of all sectors of the student body. It thereby transcends the adoption of a singular assumption that people from different cultures need to relate to one another well if they are to coexist peacefully or interact with one another purposefully. Rather it proposes that people need to often read ‘between the lines’ when relating to one another, thereby exploring their own assumptions of the world and how they influence how they think, what they say, and how they act.