Marxist View

Question 1

Althusser

Answer 1

Role is to produce an efficient and obedient work force by:
- reproducing technical skills, rc ideology, socialising workers into accepting it
T/f main ideological state apparatus that prevents rebellion against exploitation

Question 2

Bourdieu habitus

Answer 2

Socially ingrained habits, skills, dispositions

Question 3

Bourdieu capital

Answer 3

Economic, social, cultural and symbolic

Question 4

Bourdieu

Answer 4

Legitimised class inequality and reproduced class structure
- Rc imposes it’s habitus
- Mc more cultural capital (access to rc habitus) t/f more academically successful
Passes on ideology that ed is meritocratic

Question 5

Illich

Answer 5

Centre of consumerism and conformity
Learning is replaced by a process of advancing through ed hierarchies but only for those who conform to
Advocated for de schooling

Question 6

Freire

Answer 6

Schools are repressive - teach students to accept oppression
Criticised banking model - idea that children are empty accounts waiting to be filled by teachers

Question 7

Freire - critical pedagogy

Answer 7

Teaching pupils to think critically to allow them to understand their oppression and organise their freedom from it

Question 8

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 8

Role is to produce and obedience workforce through the correspondence principle (ed mirrors workplace)
Hidden curriculum
Myth of meritocracy

Question 9

Supporting evaluation- statistics

Answer 9

7% of uk population attend fee paying schools - make up 34% of top positions
Are able to buy children better education gives them better chance at getting in to top unis

Question 10

Evaluation - Ball, Bowe and Gewertiz (1994)

Answer 10

Formula funding causes schools to focus on their resources on the most able children: mc parents play system to get their children into best schools

Question 11

Supporting evaluation - Reay (1988)

Answer 11

Compared wc and mc mothers of primary children in London
Found mc mothers use cultural capital to help with homework, boost confidence and resolve issues with teachers

Question 12

Evaluation - limitation

Answer 12

Little evidence for pupils believing in myth of meritocracy
Paul Willis Lads saw system as biased towards mc and many young people in deprived areas are very aware they are getting a poor quality of education