Marxist Flashcards
What do Marxists see the education system being based on?
Class divisions and capitalist exploitatiojn
How does education legitimise class inequality according to Althusser?
Produces ideologies that disguise and persuade the fact that working class underachieve e.g meritocracy
Who identified the correspondence principle?
Bowles and Gintis
Correspondence principle
How the organisation and control of school mirrors the workplace in a capitalist society
Example of the correspondence principle
School - alienation through students lack of control over education
Work - alienation through workers lack of control over production
Myth of meritocracy
The education system appears fair but in reality certain groups (in particular wealthy and upper classes) have far more advantages