MARXIST

• Bowles and Gintis - Correspondence principle

  Obedience, organisation and passivity. Corresponds to good grades which corresponds to being an effective worker for bourgeoisie
• The hidden curriculum

  transmission of ruling class ideology

  taught in school, covertly hidden as school ways and values

  tell working class how to behave in capitalist society
• Louis Althusser

  The education system is a Repressive State Apparatus transmitting ruling class ideology to keep the working class down
• Althusser

  ISA - Ideological state apparatus

  bourgeoisie maintain class divide and keep working class in false class consciousness through ISA
• Myth of meritocracy

  no such thing as fair system of achievement
• Paul Willis

  Working class lads have a "laff" to consciously reject school rules, but their behaviour led to their secured position in the working class