Marxism and education

What is the title of Althusser's theory on education?

Idenlogical state apparatus

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What 2 elements do the state maintain the R/C holding the power?

The repressive statute apparatus, The ideological state apparatus

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What is the repressive state Apparatus?

when the state uses force to prevent a revolution via police, courts and army

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What is the Ideological state apparatus?

Controls peoples ideas, values and beliefs through religion, *** media and education system

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What are the 2 functions of the education system for Capitalism as an ideological state apparatus?

Reproduces class inequality, education justifies class inequalty

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how does education reproduce class inequality

by teaching ideology to generation after generation of W/C

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How does education also justify class inequality?

by producing ideology that disguises its true cause so it convinces people that inequality is inevitable and failure is the fault of the capitalist system not the individual (the myth of meritocracy )

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However, why do Morrow criticise Marxists?

Focus too much on social calls inequity and ignores other types

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What does feminist MacDonald argue?

Schools reproduce patriarchy not just capitiasm

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Correspondence principle

Bowles and Gintis (1976)

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According to B+G, capitalism needs what type of workers?

Obedient, submissive, workers that are willing to accept hard work, low pay and authority

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What is education's role in this?

They reproduce these types of workers because capitalism will always need workers

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What is the correspondence principle?

parrels between schooling and work and operates within the hidden curriculium

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Examples - 4 and 6 markers

Lack of control, hierarchy, rewards, sanctions, fragmentation, competition structure

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What is there lack of control over in education and the workplace

start time, timetable, lunch

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Explain Hierarchy

between teachers and pupils and in the workplace eg. managers

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Explain rewards

Grades and extra pay bonuses

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Explain sanctions

Detentions if misbehave and disciplinary procedures for workers

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Explain fragmentations

separation, sets and labor split into meaningless tasks

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Explain competition

with grades sets, class and in work status and pay

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Explain structure

levels of education (year group) and levels of occupation structure (lower-low pay high-higher pay)

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However, why do postmodernists criticisms and say the correspondence principles is out of date

because schools now produce a diverse workforce as the labor force that capitalism needs have changed

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When were the findings more applicable?

When they were researching in 1976

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The myth of meritocracy

legitimizing class inequality

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Why do Bowles and Gintis believe education presents a myth of meritocracy

Because it teaches the ideology that inequality is fair and inequality

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Thus, how does it prevent a revolution ?

By providing false class consciousness

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What does education blame education on?

The individual, not poverty

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What is educational success based on according to Bowles and Gintis?

success based off class background not educational policy

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However, why are Bowles and Gintis too deterministic?

assumes pupils have no free will and passively accept indoctrination

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What part of the curriculum does it ignore that teaches pupils about policies, class divisions etc?

National curriculum (formal)

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Learning to Labour

Willis

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What type of Marxists is Paul Willis ?

Neo marxist

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Who did Paul study?

12 W/C boys during the last 18 months at school and first months of work

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What did Willis find the boys could see through?

He found they were able to see through meritocratic ideology and resisted indoctrination

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What did they develop that opposed the school?

a counter culture

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in what ways was this counter-culture characterized?

being disobedient and mocking conformist pupils ('ear holes')

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However, what was resisting the negative of resisting the school's authority?

they ended up fetting low paid manual obs because they did not have qualifications so by resisting the ideology, they ended up in the capitalist workforce anyway

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Therefore, what does Willis reject because 'the lads' saw through the capitalist ideology?

b+g correspondence principle

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However, how does Willis romanticize the 'lads'?

Portrays them as W/C heroes despite their anti-social behavior and sexist attitudes

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Why is this study hard to generalize?

Small scale, not representative - only 12 boys

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What does McRobbie do?

argues the study ignore females and that schools don't produce capitalism but the patriarchy

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