Marxism and Education
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- Marxism and Education
- Althusser
- Education is an ideological state apparatus that benefits the bourgeoisie through different functions
- Hidden Curriculum
- Teaches to accept future
- Produces obedient workforce to accept future exploitation
- Official Curriculum
- Teaches ideology is reasonable
- Other ideologies are unreasonable
- Hidden Curriculum
- Education is an ideological state apparatus that benefits the bourgeoisie through different functions
- Bowles and Gintis' Correspondence Principle
- Schools produce flexible workers
- Close similarity between classroom and workplace
- Rewards
- School = work hard for qualifications
- Work = workers work hard for money
- Hierarchy
- School = headteacher, teacher, pupils
- Work = Owners, skilled workers, unskilled workers
- Role Alloation
- Education allocates people into particular jobs, education confirms position in society
- WC channelled into WC jobs, bourgeoisie ensured power
- Myth of Meritocracy
- Capitalism is unequal, education legitimises it
- Education broadcasts myth that it offers equal chance, not on ability but social class
- Higher class = higher qualifications leading to a better job
- Bourdieu
- Subjects taught reflect dominant culture, benefits ruling class students who are socialised and confident
- WC socialisation is devalued
- Cultural experience can be transformed into qualification
- Paul Willis
- Functionalism and Marxism generalise and believe people have a choice and are not passive puppets
- Studied 12 WC boys through PO and unstructured interviews
- Boys have anti-school approach and wanted to go into work
- Focuses on boys and can't be generalised
- Evaluation
- Teachers are agents of capitalism e.g. sociology and humanities are often critical of inequality
- Deterministic - ignores free will, people choose and are not brainwashed some rebel against school ideology
- Recognises not everybody is equal in education
- Althusser
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