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A rationale for helping primary grade children learn about and value their own and other cultures while acquiring basic academic skills is provided. The handbook is based on the responsive multicultural basic skills approach (MIS), which states that the school curriculum should reflect society's multicultural nature. The RMBS approach emphasizes basic skills, incorporates content from a diversity of cultural groups into all parts of the curriculum, and provides children with opportunities for using their on world view as an asset for learning. The first part of the handbook discusses ways in which world views differ among and within ethnic groups and how students ' ethnic world views affect their learning. The second part discusses the RMBS approach. The need for introducing the youngest students to multicultural studies and multicultural education as a pedagogical process is discussed. Guidelines for usin