Teaching for Diversity: Intercultural and Intergroup Education in the Public Schools, 1920s to 1970s

This historiography chronicles educators' efforts to teach for diversity through heightening awareness of immigrant expenences as well as discrimination against minoritized religious and racial groups in public school classrooms from the 1920s through the 1970s. This curriculum and pedagogical...

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Published in:Review of research in education 2019-03, Vol.43 (1), p.1-31
Main Authors: Johnson, Lauri D., Pak, Yoon K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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Cultural Pluralism
Curriculum Development
Desegregation Litigation
Educational Change
Educational History
Elementary Secondary Education
Faculty Development
Historiography
Immigrants
Intergroup Relations
Minority Group Teachers
Minority Groups
Multicultural Education
Public Schools
Race
Racial Bias
Religious Cultural Groups
School Desegregation
Social Bias
Teacher Recruitment
Teaching Methods
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Summary:This historiography chronicles educators' efforts to teach for diversity through heightening awareness of immigrant expenences as well as discrimination against minoritized religious and racial groups in public school classrooms from the 1920s through the 1970s. This curriculum and pedagogical work was couched under various terms, such as intercultural education, intergroup education, human relations, and cultural pluralism. Drawing from published secondary research literature as well as pnmary archival sources, we aim to disrupt commonly held views that intercultural education/intergroup education met its demise in the 1950s and show how curriculum and pedagogy shifted after the landmark 1954 ruling of Brown v. Board of Education toward improving intergroup relations within the context of school desegregation. In the end we identify common themes acros the decades that include the failure to recruit and support a diverse teaching force, the importance of teacher-led curriculum and professional development, and the lack of a sustained focus on race and racism in classroom practices.
ISSN:0091-732X
1935-1038
DOI:10.3102/0091732X18821127