Education Marxist Perspective
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- Created on: 03-05-18 15:03
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- Marxist Perspective
- Education is a form of social control
- Encourages people to be conformists - to accept their social position
- And inequality in power, wealth and income
- Encourages people to be conformists - to accept their social position
- Althusser
- Education system is an ideological state apparatus
- Passes on the dominant class ideology
- Justifies the capitalist system
- Ensures they have the right conformist attitudes
- Education system is an ideological state apparatus
- Education reproduces the existing class structure
- Confirms pupil's class of origin as their class of destination
- Bourdieu
- Culture of education is the culture of the dominant class
- Middle and Upper class have access to cultural capital
- Illich and Freire
- Schools are repressive, promote conformity
- Discourages criticism
- Wants to abolish schools - deschooling society
- Schools are repressive, promote conformity
- Bowls and Gintis
- Schooling prepares young people for work by the hidden curriculum
- Pupils lack of power and control mirrors that of workers
- Exam success and grading by reflects difference in pay and status
- CRITICISMS
- Marxist view have little research to back it up
- Pupils often rebel against school - Anti-school subculutre
- Willis - Anti-school subcultures among working-class 'lads'
- Marxists emphasis role of education -ignore wider influences e.g family and media
- COMPARISON
- Both see schools as a powerful socialising influences
- Education is a form of social control
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