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Marxist perspective on education - Coggle Diagram
Marxist perspective on education
Bowles & Gintis
claim
Meritocracy
is an ideology
legitimating
inequality
by claiming everyone has equal opportunity
said education mirrors work to prepare W/C kids for their future
Correspondence Principle
transmitted through
Hidden Curriculum
→
rules & expectations program students to accept failure, hierarchy & inequality
Schools prize
obedience & punctuality
→ the same as capitalist system
Marxists
Education is a component of the
Superstructure
of
capitalist society
→
Social institution to transmit ruling class ideology
serves
capitalist class
rather than students
Summary
education part of
Ideological state apparatus
edu. promotes RC values that serve in their interest
Althusser on education
reproduces
social class inequalities
myth of meritocracy
- education system favours privately educated middle class students
M/C pupils have access to
economical & cultural capital
encourages students to accept capitalist values -
competition, individualism
shaped by
hidden curriculum
- assists M/C achievements & deters W/C
→ encourages W/C to
conform & accept
hierarchy & inequality
→lowers W/C ambitions &
accept blame for failure