Perspectives on education- Marxist Flashcards
What is the proletariat?
The working class.
What is the bourgeoise?
The upper class.
What was the Marxist overall view of education?
Education is there to create an efficient and submissive workforce. Education is an ideological tool that controls the W/C. Education will only fair fair when the W/C have revolted and communism replaces capitalism.
What approach did Althusser take?
A theoretical approach, this means his work isn’t based on research.
What did Althusser believe?
That education has replaced religion. The education system passes on the R/C ideology and teaches everyone the basic skills you need to preform in a capitalist society. The W/C are forced to fail and end up taking low paid and low status jobs. The R/C ‘go to the top of the pile’, and go to uni where they’re trained to fill the R/C roles.
What does Althusser believe? NO2
That meritocracy is a myth and it just justifies inequalities.
What did Bowles and Gintis (1970) believe?
They researched school across the Uk and the USA and concluded that the roles of education is to reproduce the workforce, this is often referred to as the correspondence theory as there is a link between the world of work and education. Education is a ‘myth making machine’, designed to justify inequalities.
What did Bowles and Gintis believe? NO2
That children are taught more then they need for most jobs, this maintains a high rate of unemployment which helps to control the workforce. The W/C become scared of losing there jobs and being replaced meaning that they are willing to work for lower wages.
What did Bordieu believe?
Each social class possess it’s own cultural framework (A HABITUS) this contains ideas from the dominant class, the people in the dominant class will do better this is called a CULTURAL CAPITAL.
What do Illich and Freire believe? (1995/6)
Schools are repressing institution that promote conformity, and encourage a passive acceptance of inequality. School reward those who accept regime, those that accept the system are rewarded with better qualifications and jobs. They believe that learners are conditioned to accpet either a dominance or submissive roles.
What did Willis believe?
He did not believe that there is an easy relationship between education and school, and the view deterministic and simplistic. He conducted a study for 12 ‘lads’, in their final year of school, he found that they had an anti-school culture and they directly opposed to the values of the education system. Willis thought they they saw through the ‘myth of meritocracy’, and realised that they had a ‘shop-floor culture’, this proves as evidence that people aren’t just passive to the system.
What does Archer believe?
Working class groups have been excluded from participation of higher education, people from lower classes and ethnic minorities aren’t going into high education in sufficient numbers.
