neo-marxism Flashcards

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what is neo-marxism?

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an attempt to provide a more contemporary understanding of class society based on the ideas of Marx and Engels
e.g bowles and Gintis conducted research in 1976

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Giroux(1984)

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he argues that working-class pupils do not passive accept what they are taught
-belives wc pupils actively shape their education and sometimes resist the discipline imposed on them by school

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paul willis=

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neo-marxist

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Giroux argues schools are sites of?

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ideological struggle by different classes and by different ethnic,religious and cultural groups struggling toe ensure education provides the things they wish for

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giroux acknowledges that capitalists have ?

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more power than any other single group but they don’t have all the power

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neo-marxist conclusions

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-hidden curriculum is not always accepted
-education does not always succeed in socialising pupils into dominant values
-it suggests that both functionalism and marxism exaggerate conformity in education -> too deterministic

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