The Marxist view of education
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- Created on: 21-02-21 21:42
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- Marxist approach to education
- Althusser ISA
- Education is an ideological state apparatus which is used by the ruling class to brainwash students by manipulating the way people think which operates in two ways
- It transmits a general ideology which states that capitalism is the best and most natural for society while portraying other societal organisations and irrational and bad
- Encourages individuals to passively accept their future roles which produces a compliant and obedient workforce
- Education is an ideological state apparatus which is used by the ruling class to brainwash students by manipulating the way people think which operates in two ways
- Bowles and Gintis Hidden curriculum
- Bowels and Gintis state that school mirrors the workplace, this is a correspondence principle and it prepares children to accept their future exploitation as the proletariat through the hidden curriculum which has several similarities between school and the workplace
- Passive subservience of pupils to teachers which corresponds to passive subservience of workers to managers
- Acceptance of hagiarchy which corresponds to authority of managers
- Motivation by external rewards corresponding to being motivated by wages not by how much you enjoy the job
- Education transmits the myth of meritocracy when in reality it is an illusion blaming the working class for their own failure
- Bowels and Gintis state that school mirrors the workplace, this is a correspondence principle and it prepares children to accept their future exploitation as the proletariat through the hidden curriculum which has several similarities between school and the workplace
- Critiques
- Paul Willis Not all pupils are passive only supports neo Marxism due to anti school subcultures
- Critical subjects are taught in schools such as sociology
- Deterministic not every w.c student fails
- Outdated since the education system and workplace offer a lot more in current society
- Bourdior
- Children of middle class parents will have more assets which help them succeed in education such as
- Social capital
- Social connections which could benefit a child's education, its not what you know its who you know
- Economic Capital
- Money which can be invested in private tuition, educational resources
- Cultural capital
- Knowledge, behaviour and attitudes and cultural experience
- Social capital
- Children of middle class parents will have more assets which help them succeed in education such as
- Support
- Private schools give mc an advantage
- Wc students are at a disadvantage due to maternal and cultural deprivation
- Althusser ISA
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