Marxist

Question 1

What do Marxists see the education system being based on?

Answer 1

Class divisions and capitalist exploitatiojn

Question 2

How does education legitimise class inequality according to Althusser?

Answer 2

Produces ideologies that disguise and persuade the fact that working class underachieve e.g meritocracy

Question 3

Who identified the correspondence principle?

Answer 3

Bowles and Gintis

Question 4

Correspondence principle

Answer 4

How the organisation and control of school mirrors the workplace in a capitalist society

Question 5

Example of the correspondence principle

Answer 5

School - alienation through students lack of control over education
Work - alienation through workers lack of control over production

Question 6

Myth of meritocracy

Answer 6

The education system appears fair but in reality certain groups (in particular wealthy and upper classes) have far more advantages