marxism education
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- Marxism - education
- Althusser
- state consists of two elements or apparatuses both of which serve to keep the bourgeoisie in power
- repressive state apparatus
- used if working class do not conform through the ideological state apparatuses
- includes police, army and courts. sometimes use physical coercion to repress the working class
- used if working class do not conform through the ideological state apparatuses
- ideological state apparatus
- consists of the media, family, religion and education
- controls peoples ideas, values and beliefs. passes on dominant ruling class ideology to create a false class consciousness
- education is an important ideological state apparatus performing two functions
- education reproduces class inequality
- done by producing ideologies that disguise the truth
- education legitimises class inequality
- accept = less likely to challenge capitalism
- done by producing ideologies that disguise the truth
- education legitimises class inequality
- education reproduces class inequality
- consists of the media, family, religion and education
- repressive state apparatus
- state consists of two elements or apparatuses both of which serve to keep the bourgeoisie in power
- Bowles and Gintis
- education prepares the next generation for work
- education is a workforce which is docile, divided workforce motivated by money. leads to accepting exploitation
- hidden curriculum does this by teaching students to accept discipline, hierarchy and be passive towards the status quo
- influences children's behaviour, making them behave in a particular way by respecting and listening to teachers which reflects the world of work. often called the correspondence principal
- is the hidden curriculum really hidden? schools have rules to follow which fulfil the same purpose
- does capitalism only demand docile, submissive workers? modern society demand intelligent, imaginative workers - post modernism - society more diverse
- hidden curriculum does this by teaching students to accept discipline, hierarchy and be passive towards the status quo
- are education and work so closely linked?
- education is a workforce which is docile, divided workforce motivated by money. leads to accepting exploitation
- no research evidence to support theory. assume school has these affects
- education prepares the next generation for work
- willis
- Willis rejects that schools brainwash
- in his study, 'learning to labour', he discovered that the lads rejected school values as they wanted to have a laugh, smoke, drink, be disobedient, reject school values and be sexist and avoid work.
- they therefore, rejected the ideology that working class can achieve middle class jobs through hard work - evaluation point to meritocracy
- in his study, 'learning to labour', he discovered that the lads rejected school values as they wanted to have a laugh, smoke, drink, be disobedient, reject school values and be sexist and avoid work.
- only studied 12 boys - not representative at all as small scale and girls not considered
- Willis rejects that schools brainwash
- Bourdieu
- argues that each social class processes its own cultural framework or set of ideas which he class habitus. also known as cultural capital
- middle class advantage as they share same norms and values of the school
- cultural capital enables middle class to pass on superior position to their children - attend private school to get good grades and therefore a well paid job - reproducing the class inequality
- argues that each social class processes its own cultural framework or set of ideas which he class habitus. also known as cultural capital
- not all schools act in the same way
- feminists argue that education reinforces patriarchy as well as capitalism
- Althusser
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