marxist perspective

    Cards (10)

    • SEE EDUCATION FUNCTIONING TO...
      prevent a revolution and maintain capitalism.
    • ALTHUSSER - 2 ELEMENTS THAT KEEP BOURGEOISIE IN POWER
      • RSA - repressive state apparatus: include police + courts, they use force to repress the working class.
      • ISA - ideological state apparatus: include education + media, controlling peoples ideas, values + beliefs
    • ALTHUSSER - EDUCATION SYSTEM IS IMPORTANT ISA, PERFORMS 2 FUNCTIONS:
      • reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from one generation to another.
      • legitimises class inequality by producing ideology's that persuade workers to accept inequality, subordination is inevitable.
    • BOWLES + GINTIS - ROLE OF EDUCATION
      • reproduce obedient workforce that will accept inequality as inevitable.
      • education stunts + distorts students development.
    • BOWLES + GINTIS - CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE
      • parallels found between school and work place, school mirrors the world of work.
      • operates through the hidden curriculum, preparing working class pupils for their role of exploited workers.
    • BOWLES + GINTIS - MYTH OF MERITOCRACY
      • education system promotes 'the myth of meritocracy'.
      • main factor in determining whether someone has high income is based off class background not ability or educational achievement.
    • WILLIS
      working class pupils can resist education, by pupils resisting schools ideology's they'er destined for unskilled work that capitalism needs.
    • EVALUATION - POSTMODERNISTS
      criticise Bowles + Gintis, correspondence principal
      • today's economy a different labour force then what they described.
    • EVALUATION - BOWLES + GINTIS
      too deterministic, they assume pupils have no free will.
    • EVALUATION - FEMINISTS
      Bowles + Gintis ignore the fact that school produces patriarchy as well as capitalism.
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