Claim: The patterns of Educational Philosophy: A Democratic Interpretation in 1950 that helped cultivate his view of four philosophies of education: essentialism (the view that every entity has a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function), perennialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism, was published in 1950 by  Theodore Brameld, the same author who wrote Minority Problems in the Public Schools.
Evidence: Continuing on his philosophy, he published Patterns of Educational Philosophy: A Democratic Interpretation in 1950 that helped cultivate his view of four philosophies of education: essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, and reconstructionism. In 1945, he wrote Minority Problems in the Public Schools which confronted social unfairness like prejudice, discrimination, and economic exploitation in schools. Essentialism is the view that every entity has a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function.