neo-marxism Flashcards
what is neo-marxism?
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
Giroux(1984)
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
paul willis=
neo-marxist
Giroux argues schools are sites of?
ideological struggle by different classes and by different ethnic,religious and cultural groups struggling toe ensure education provides the things they wish for
giroux acknowledges that capitalists have ?
more power than any other single group but they don’t have all the power
neo-marxist conclusions
-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