Marxists on Education

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What is the function of education, according to Marxists?
To prevent revolution and maintain capitalism
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What are the two apparatus that Althusser defines?
The repressive state apparatus and the ideological state apparatus
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How is education an important ideological state apparatus (ISA)?
It reproduces and legitimate class inequality
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What do Bowels and Gintis argue the role of education is in capitalist society?
To reproduce an obedient workforce that will accept inequality as inevitable
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What do schools reward, according to Bowels and Gintis?
Personality traits that make for a submissive, compliant worker
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What is the ‘correspondence principle’?
The relationships and structures found in education which mirror that of the workplace
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What does the correspondence principle work through?
The hidden curriculum
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How does Cohen argue that youth training schemes serve capitalism?
By teaching young workers about the attitudes and values needed in a subordinate labour force
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How do Bowels and Gintis describe the education system?
As a ‘giant myth-making machine’
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What is the purpose of the myth of meritocracy?
To justify the privileges of the ruling class making it seem like they gained them through fair competition, therefore legitimatising inequality
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What theory do Bowels and Gintis give to argue that education justifies poverty?
The ‘poor-are-dumb’ theory
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What does Willis’ study show?
That working-class pupils can resist attempts to indoctrinate them
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What research methods did Willis use?
Participant observation and unstructured interviews (Qualitative data)
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What is the lads’ counter-culture?
The opposition to school and rejection of meritocratic ideology
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What are the similarities between the lads’ counter-culture and shopfloor culture?
Seeing manual work as superior to effeminate intellectual work
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How does anti-school culture benefit capitalism?
It guarantees that people with anti-school culture will end up in unskilled jobs by ensuring failure to gain worthwhile qualifications
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What do Bowels and Gintis assume about pupils?
They have no free will and passively accept indoctrination
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What is a criticism of Willis?
His study was small scale
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How do Morrow and Torres criticise Marxism?
They take a ‘class first’ approach that ignores all other kinds of inequality
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What does McDonald criticise Bowels and Gintis for?
Ignoring the fact that schools reproduce patriarchy as well as capitalism
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