Marxist perspective of Education
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- Created on: 11-04-19 18:53
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- Marxist perspective on family
- Intro/basics
- Focus on how nuclear family maintains capitalism and inequality
- Economic relations effect socia; relations
- Legitimation of class inequaility
- In school we are taught we all have an equal chance to succeed
- If we fail it's our own lack of ability or effort
- This is why w/c accept lower-paid jobs
- Pupils aren't taught the truth- that w/c are at an disadvanatge due to social class
- If we fail it's our own lack of ability or effort
- Schools teach the 'myth of meritocracy'
- In school we are taught we all have an equal chance to succeed
- The reproduction of class inequality
- In reality- social influences educational achievement in addition to intelligence and effort
- Middle class children get better qualifications
- Then go on to get higher paid 'middle class' job
- Working-class children end up with lower qualifications
- They end up with lower paid w/c jobs
- Ideological state apparatus
- Louis Althusser
- School creates false consciousness it controls people's minds
- Encourages pupils to passively accept their future work roles
- Create a passive and subservient workforce
- It presents the capitaliist system as just inevitable, presents other systems as unrealistic
- Encourages pupils to passively accept their future work roles
- Correspondence principle
- What students learn in school corresponds to what future employers need
- Acceptance of hierarchy at school
- Passive subservience of pupils to teachers
- Motivation by external rewards
- What students learn in school corresponds to what future employers need
- Neo-Marxism (Paul Willis)
- Participant observation- study of lads who formed a subculture
- Purpose of school was to rebel
- They saw school as pointless- irrelevant to the factory jobs they wanted, they also realised it was unfair
- They'd seen through the 'myth of meritocracy'
- working-class 'lads' still ended up with w/c jobs
- Participant observation- study of lads who formed a subculture
- Positive evaluations
- Culture capital benefits m'c pupils
- Wealth of statistical evidence show w/c pupils disadvanatged by material + cultural deprivation
- The existence of private schools unfairly benefit m/c pupils
- 7% of private schools pupils get >50% of top jobs
- Criticisms
- The class structure/education system are more complex today
- Some pupils don't just accept authority passively)
- Too deterministic- not every w/c pupils fails
- Intro/basics
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