Marxist view of Education
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- Marxist view of Education
- Conflict Theory
- They see everything as negative in society
- Capitalism
- Marxists believe that this is the root cause of social inequality
- Main focus is on unequal wealth distribution between upper and lower classes
- Marxists believe that this is the root cause of social inequality
- Bourgeoisie
- Ruling class
- Proletariat
- Working/ Lower class
- Sell their labor in exchange for wages
- Working/ Lower class
- Bowles & Gintis
- School teaches hidden curriculum
- Hidden Curriculum- 'lessons' you learn outside of the classroom EG. Punctuality
- How the Hidden Curriculum helps for the workplace
- Punctuality- You are on time for your Job
- School Rules- Conformity to society's rules, discipline
- Competition in Sports- Competition in the workplace, applying for jobs
- Respecting staff- Respecting/ listening to bosses
- How the Hidden Curriculum helps for the workplace
- Hidden Curriculum- 'lessons' you learn outside of the classroom EG. Punctuality
- Correspondence Theory
- A fragmented school timetable helps for a fragmented day at work
- School teaches hidden curriculum
- An Important part of the superstructure of society
- Serves the needs of the economic base
- Education performs 2 main functions in Capitalist society
- Reproduces the inequalities and social relations of production of capitalist society
- Legitimizes class inequalities through the myth of meritocracy- producing ideologies that which disguise the truth.
- Althusser
- Repressive State Apparatus
- used by the ruling class
- Institutions which maintain the rule of the bourgeoisie by force. EG. Army, Police and Laws
- Ideological State Apparatus
- Maintaining the rule of the bourgeoisie by controlling people's ideas, values and beliefs. EG. The Media, Religion and the Education system
- Repressive State Apparatus
- Evaluation of Marxism
- Ignores free will and assumes that pupils passively accept indoctrination
- Willis and 'the lads' they rejected school rules
- Only sees Class as the key inequality
- They ignore other types such as Age, Gender and Ethnicity
- Ignores free will and assumes that pupils passively accept indoctrination
- Conflict Theory
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