marxist view

• Althusser

  • private education prepares children of the elite for powerful positions in society
  • the hidden curriculum is created in a way that assists m/c achievement, while deterring w’c achievement
  • education encourages pupils to blindly accept capitalist values, through the hidden curriculum
• Bowles & Gintis;

  • correspondence principal
  • school processes mirror the world of work in order to prepare pupils for tedious, manual labour

  lack of control

  blind obedience

  achieved status

  discipline and consequence

  boredom

  monotony
• the hidden curriculum;

  the informal learning processes that are passively taught in school, it is a side effect of education that passes on norms and values of society
• Althusser argued that education is part of the ideological state apparatus used by the m/c to to manipulate the w/c into a state of false class consciousness by influencing their way of thinking & behaving
• Interpellation & ISA

  • the process of regularly exposing a group of people to an ideology, until they begin to internalise the norms & values, and view it as logical
  • the ISA‘s main goal is to interpellate us into believing that capitalism benefits us, and ensuring that conformity to the ruling class ideology is deeply ingrained in our way of thinking