Claim: Theodore Brameld, who wrote Minority Problems in the Public Schools in 1945, published 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.
Evidence: In 1945, he wrote Minority Problems in the Public Schools which confronted social unfairness like prejudice, discrimination, and economic exploitation in schools. 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. Essentialism is the view that every entity has a set of attributes that are necessary to its identity and function.