Neo Marxist Perspectives On Education

Question 1

Henry giroux

Answer 1

Disagrees with Bowles and Gintis 
- doesn’t believe working class pupils passively accept what they are taught

Question 2

Willis

Answer 2

Group of lads 1977

• formed anti school stance
• lads saw themselves as superior to teachers
• not interested in acedmic qualifications
• first jobs, unskilled manual jobs
• ended up reproducing class inequalities

Question 3

Hidden curriculum

Answer 3

Not always accepted does not succeed in socialising pupils into dominant values
- Marx and funct exaggerate pupil conformity