Marxism

• Althusser: Education is an ideological state apparatus, enables bourgeoisie to main control over people.
• Althusser?

  Education reproduces class inequality- transmitting idea from generation and failing the w/c deliberately.
• Althusser?

  Education justifies inequality by producing sets of ideas which disguise its cause. Encourages mindset of false class consciousness.
• Bowles and Gintis?

  Correspondence principle-school mirrors the structures found at work. Works through the hidden curriculum.
• Bowels and Gintis?

  Education promotes the myth of meritocracy.
• Willis (Neo-marxist)?

  Studied the culture of 12 working class lads using interviews. Lads formed an anti-school subculture.
• Willis?

  Similarity between anti-school subculture and shop floor culture of male Manuel workers. Both cultures see manual work as superior to intellectual work forfeminine
• Willis?

  Students do have the power to reject values being transmitted by education system. Mainstream Marxists too deterministic.