Marxist views on education
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- Marxist views on education
- Althusser
- Claimed that a range of formal and informal agencies of social control are necessary to maintain capitalism.
- Said people are manipulated into loving the system through:
- Repressive state apparatus e.g. police and army
- Ideological state apparatus such as education
- Said people are manipulated into loving the system through:
- According to Althusser schools transmit an ideology that Capitalism is fair and just and they prepare children for their role in the workforce
- Claimed that a range of formal and informal agencies of social control are necessary to maintain capitalism.
- Bowles and Gintis
- Schools operate through both the formal curriculum and the hidden curriculum to reproduce existing class inequalities in the new generation.
- Identify a close correspondence between social relationships in the classroom and in the workplace
- This correspondence is essential for social reproduction of people accepting their roles in capitalist society (correspondence theory)
- Argue that meritocracy is a myth and the education system is a myth making machine
- Althusser
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