Marxism (education)
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- Created on: 22-02-22 15:20
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- Marxism (education)
- The main role of education is to pass on ruling class ideology that supports capitalism to legitimise and reproduce inequality
- Althusser (ideological state apparatus)
- Education transmits a general ideology that capitalism is just and reasonable – a natural and fair way of organising society.
- Schools encourage pupils to passively accept their future roles
- Bowles and Gintis (Correspondence principal)
- School and work both involve uniforms, strict time-keeping, hierarchy, rewards, punishments, etc.
- Scool prepares pupils for life in the capitalist system and prevents rebellion or revolution.
- Pupil subcultures
- Lacey (Streaming)
- lower set students feel rejected and opt to gain recognition through deviant behaviour
- lower sets are more likely to be working class
- Higher set students conform to the schools norms and values ans celebratie their status through pro school subcultures
- higher sets are more likely to be middle class
- lower set students feel rejected and opt to gain recognition through deviant behaviour
- Willis (social class)
- subcultures formed due to working class student recognising the futility of education for working class males
- Fuller (ethnicity)
- Studied black girls in year 11, they were high ability but had a racist teacher so formed a subculture and worked alone to succeed and achieve good grades
- Lacey (Streaming)
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