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Issues in Supporting School Diversity: Academics, Social Relations, and the Arts
Author(s) -
Judith Lynne Hanna
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1994.25.1.05x0964b
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , socioeconomic status , mandate , sociology , cultural diversity , the arts , cultural pluralism , unintended consequences , social science , political science , pedagogy , law , anthropology , population , demography
Supporting diversity in schools is a common mandate in education. It is undergirded by current demography and projected trends: within the United States young people of color are estimated to outnumber young whites in the 21st century. Some problematic issues beg consideration. What are the goals of supporting diversity? The means to reach them? Are the arts an ignored resource? What do people understand about their culture that they want children to learn at school? What are the manifestations that schools should address? How do we cope with (a) diversity within diversity, (b) lack of evidence that specific programs meet their goals, (c) the relationship between diversity and socioeconomic mobility, (d) cultural expression as cultural property, and (e) unintended offenses?