Marxist perspective of Education

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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
      • Schools teach the 'myth of meritocracy'
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

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The Marxist perspective of education is that it is a means of social control. Education is seen as the state's means of ensuring that its citizens are productive members of society in the interests of the state. The state's role in education is said to be one of control and regulation, not one of provision. In this sense, education is an instrument used by the state to ensure that society works effectively for their own benefit. I have always been visiting https://sopwritingservices.net/ website whenever I needed help with all my pending essays timely.

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