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.
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. 
