%0 Journal Article
%T Melting Pot Influences on Secondary English Curriculum Policy
%A Allison Skerrett
%J International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
%D 2009
%I Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Simon Fraser University, George Mason University
%X This article explores how racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity are addressed in secondary English curriculum policy in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Data are analyzed through theories of the sociology of knowledge and the myth of the United States melting pot. Analysis revealed that curriculum policy privileged Eurocentric literature and the English language and adhered to a melting pot ideology. The article considers how the international educational policy movement toward post-standardization may afford greater responsiveness to diversity.
%K curriculum
%K policy
%K diversity
%U http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/view/184/83