Open AccessInterest Convergence in Intergroup Education and Beyond: Rethinking Agendas in Multicultural Education
Author(s) -
Limarys Caraballo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of multicultural education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.472
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1934-5267
DOI - 10.18251/ijme.v11i1.184
Subject(s) - scholarship , multicultural education , multiculturalism , convergence (economics) , curriculum , ethnic group , unrest , politics , sociology , socioeconomic status , political science , social science , political economy , pedagogy , economic growth , law , economics , population , demography
Intergroup movements in the United States in the 1920s-50s provided leadership to schools and communities grappling with rising racial and ethnic unrest. C. A. M. Banks (1996, 2004, 2005) argues that the conceptual limitations of the movement’s scholarship and its decline yield important lessons for multicultural educators. Building upon her work, I use Bell’s (1980) interest-convergence principle to analyze the movement’s successes and failures given the interests and values of prominent political, socioeconomic, and educational constituencies of the time. As an analytic lens, the interest-convergence principle simultaneously clarifies and complicates future agendas in multicultural education research, pedagogy, and curriculum.