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New Caledonia is currently one of French overseas territories since 1853. It promotes the multicultural immigrating policies and contains lots of ethnic groups including Kanak, French, other Europeans..., Polynesian, Vietnamese and Indonesian. This study aims to observe how multicultural and local contents are adopted in the education in such a multicultural society. It starts with a theoretical framework and practices related to the multicultural education. Consequently, it introduces the cultural background of the indigenous society in New Caledonia. Then it describes the current conditions and issues of the education through statistical documents followed by a case study held at a selected primary school. The case study includes school activities related to the local contents organized in the school such as field visits to an indigenous village, tasting of the local cuisine and PTA meetings. Analyzed along the theoretical framework of multicultural education, it is considered as the stage of multi-ethnic studies to gain the knowledge about the different culture. Parents and community members participated in the school activities and the contents were based in the local cultural practices. However, it remains in the stage to understand the different culture and does not seem to develop self-esteem and self-identification.show more
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