Marxism and Education
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- Marxism and Education
- 'Education maintains capitalism and stops a revolution'
- Althusser
- The education system is an ideological status appartus
- Passing on ruling class ideology to keep them in their dominant position
- Schools pass on ideologies that capitalism is fair and to accept future exploitation
- False class consciousness
- Ideology is essential is society to reproduce inequality and fall successive generations of W/C
- The education system is an ideological status appartus
- Bowles and Gintis
- Correspondence theory - relationship between work and school
- School prepares you for your future exploitation
- Hidden Curriculum - things that aren't on the curriculum, e.g. discipline and punctuality
- Education broadcasts the myth of meritocracy
- Bourdieu
- The more cultural capital (cultural knowledge) the more likely they are to succeed
- Due to it being closer to the teachers middle class background and language
- Teachers use 'bourgeoisie parlance' not 'common parlance'
- Boudon
- Cost of Persistence
- For W/C's to stay in education, e.g. finance, friendships and family
- Cost of Persistence
- Paul Willis
- "Learning to Labour" study of a group of 12 working class 'lads'
- The 'lads; created a "counter school subculture" to have a 'laff'
- Rejected school approved noms and values
- Came up with anti-school vales to prepare them for their low skill, low status jobs
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