the part of the teacher to deconstruct what they have been taught to think, believe, and teach". Decision Making and Social Action Approach – This approach includes all of the elements of the transformative approach, while challenging students to work to bring about social change. The goal is to make students aware of past and present injustice, but also to equip them and empower them to be change agents. In looking into practical strategies for implementing multicultural education, Andrew Miller offers: Get to know your students. Build relationships and learn about their backgrounds and cultures. Use art as a starting point in discussions of cultural and racial issues. Have students create collective classroom slang dictionaries. Find places in your current curriculum to embed multicultural lessons, ideas, and materials (a continuous process, not merely the celebration of Black History Month or a small aside.) Allow controversy. Support respectful discussions about race, culture, and other differences. Find allies. Another essential part of multicultural teaching is examining lesson materials for bias that might alienate students. The Safe School Coalition warns against using curricular material that "omits the history, contributions and lives of a group, if ti demeans a group by using patronizing or clinically distancing language, or if it portrays a group in stereotyped roles with less than a full range of interests, traits and capabilities." Primary school Multicultural education is introduced at a young age to allow students to build a global perspective. Critical literacy practices enable students to build an honest relationship with the world while recognizing multiple perspectives and ideologies. Teachers can use critical literacy practices to pose questions that will make students analyze, question and reflect upon what they are reading. Critical literacy can be useful by enabling teachers to move beyond mere awareness of, respect for, and general recognition of the fact that different groups have different values or express similar values in different ways. The three different approaches to critical literacy are: Examining texts for voice and perspective Using texts as a vehicle to examine larger social issues Using student's lives and experiences as the text and incorporating literacy practices The choice of literature is important. Books must be chosen with consideration over how they represent the culture they consider, making sure that it avoids racial or cultural stereotypes and discrimination. Include books that: Explore differences rather than making them invisible. Enrich understandings of history and life