Marxist view of education evaluation (AO3)

Question 1

Postmodernist

Answer 1

• Evaluates Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle
• Today’s economy requires schools to produce very different kids of labour force from the one described by Marxists.
• Education now reproduces diversity not inequality

Question 2

Critics of willis’ study

Answer 2

• Portraying them as working class heroes despite their anti social behaviour and sexist attitudes.
• Small scale study

Question 3

Post Modernists Morrow and Torres (1998)

Answer 3

Criticise Marxist for taking a “class first” approach that sees class as the key inequality and ignores all other kinds.
- Society is now more diverse and non class inequalities (gender , ethnicity ) as equally important