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Multiculturalism made real for children

Journeys for all children in the Oxford University Press series.
Journeys for all children in the Oxford University Press series.
Two books with Greek characters are part of the recently released Journey series of colourful children’s books which is being published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Literacy Journeys titles, produced in partnership with the Australian Multicultural Foundation and the Immigration Museum, feature stories of children, their families and their belongings as they journey from all parts of the world to make their new home in Australia.
They also include traditional tales from the families’ respective homelands.
“The main purpose is to provide resources to inform teachers and students about cultural similarities and differences about real people and migrants that live in Australia and their journeys,” said Australian Multicultural Foundation director, Dr Hass Dellal.
“If we want to avoid racism, we need to build key values of care and compassion, fair go and inclusion within our school curriculum at a very early age. I think this will help prevent issues of discrimination or racism because of lack of understanding.”
Two of the 20 titles are based on Greece.
One of them, The Round Rock shares the story of “Pappou” Peter Hatzoglou, who migrated to Australia in 1963.
Hatzoglou used to practice shot put using a stone in Greece- a practice dating back to the 1903 Olympics.
Despite working as a carpenter and concreter, he always made time to teach the importance of the Olympics to his children, and encouraged them to throw shot put.
In early 1998, he entered a shot put event in Ballarat, which he prepared for by throwing a round rock, and marking out the throwing circle using rocks. This is a story he continues to tell to his grandchildren, and one that will now be available through classrooms across Australia. The books are grouped by difficulty (level 1-14), and by country.
The countries include Chile, China, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Somalia, Tonga, and Vietnam.
source: neos kosmos

The series can be found in the children’s section of your favourite book shop.

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