Education: Marxism Flashcards
What does Ideological State Apparatus mean?
A social institution whose main role is to pass on the dominant ideology of the ruling class.
What is the role of the Repressive State Apparatus?
A social institution whose role is to enforce the dominant ideology by force or threat of force.
What does the Correspondence Principal refer to?
The ways in which the education system mirrors the world of work.
Define Hidden Curriculum.
The informal learning processes that happen in school, teaching students the norms and values of society.
What is the main role of education according to Marxists?
Maintain capitalism and reproduce social inequality.
What are the two main functions of education in relation to social inequality?
- Reproduction of social inequality
- Legitimisation of social inequality
According to Althusser, how does education reproduce social inequality?
Education deliberate engineers W/C failure in order to create an unqualified factory workforce.
Private education prepares children of the elite for positions of power.
Hidden Curriculum is shaped to assist M/C achievement and deter W/C achievement.
According to Althusser, how does education legitimise social inequality?
M/C has access to more cultural and economic capital which puts them at an advantage.
Education encourages students to blindly accept capitalist values, through the hidden curriculum.
What is the Myth of Meritocracy in education and who proposed this idea?
Education claims to be meritocratic but schools discriminate in favour of the middle class,
Hidden curriculum lowers W/C ambitions.
Bowles and Gintis
What are some examples of the correspondance principle and who proposed it?
- wages not satisfaction
- Lack of control
- Obedience
- Achieved status
- Discipline and consequences
- Boredom
Bowles and Gintis
What is Giroux’s and neo-marxists perspective?
Rejects the view that the working class passively accepts their position.
According to Giroux, what do anti-school subcultures suggest about the hidden curriculum?
They suggest both the hidden curriculum and correspondence principal have failed.
What do Halsey, Floud, and Martin argue about Marxists’ views on education?
They suggest that Marxists exaggerate the effect education has on working class achievement.
What improvement do Halsey, Floud, and Martin point out regarding working class chances?
Government policies such as comprehensivisation have improved the chances of the working class.
What does Saunders and neo-liberals claim about middle class educational success?
It is due to biological differences.
What do Chubb and Moe and the new right argue regarding education’s failure?
Education has failed all social groups, not just the working class.
What do Marxists fail to acknowledge about education according to postmodernists?
That education reproduces diversity rather than inequality.
According to Morrow and Torres, how do students create their identities?
Students create their own identities rather than being constrained by traditional structures like class.
What is a significant trend in postmodern societies regarding student identities?
Increasing numbers of trans students making their own choices about identity.
