Marxists view on education

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  • Marxism's view on education
    • The main role of education is to produce an efficient, submissive, obedient workforce to help maintain the unequal capitalist society (structure) i.e. Education benefits the ruling class.
    • Paul Willis: Learning to labour
      • There is not a simple relationship between capitalism and the education system, students can actively choose to fail
        • Found 'the lads' subculture went against the values of the schools and doing well-coping with oppression
          • Critic of Willis: Feminists argue that he ignored women-not representative

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