Marxist View On Education

Question 1

What is Althusser

Answer 1

The idea that schools pass on messages that people accept without questions.

Education reproduces class inequality by transmitting it from generation to generation.

Education legitimates class inequality by producing ideologies that disguises its true cause.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Althusser ideology

Answer 2

The purpose is to persuade workers to accept that inequalit inevitable and that the proletariat deserves their subordinate role

Question 3

What is Ivan Illich’s viewpoint on schooling

Answer 3

Schools kill creativity as it insists in conformity.

Children learn to accept authority which mimics the government.

Question 4

What is the Correspondence Theory

Answer 4

This suggests that educational inequality is mirrored in wider society

Question 5

What is the Hidden Curriculum

Answer 5

This is the teaching of how to obey authority, being punctual and learning how to compete. This is all seemingly completed indirectly

Question 6

What is the Myth Of Meritocracy

Answer 6

Meritocracy is the ideology that legitmates inequality. The view that actual success is based on status and not effort