role and function of education: marxism

Question 1

what is the main role of education?

Answer 1

capitalism and reproduce social inequality

Question 2

Althusser - reproduction of social inequality

Answer 2

• delibabite w/c failure in order to create an unqualified factory workforce
• private school - preps childred for elite positions of power

Question 3

Althusser - how is the hidden curriculum shaped?

Answer 3

to assist m/c achievement and deter w/c achievement

Question 4

Althusser - legitimisation of social inequality?

Answer 4

m/c has access to cultural and economic capital - advantage
encourage students to blindly accept capitalism values through HC

Question 5

Bowles and Gintis - correspondence principal

Answer 5

school mirror work to prepare them for manual Labour

Question 6

Bowles and Gintis - correspondence principal - examples

Answer 6

• wages not satisfaction
• lack of control
• obedience
• achieved status
• discipline and consequences
• boredom

Question 7

Bowles and Ginits - myth of meritocracy

Answer 7

claims to be meritocratic but discriminate in favour of the m/c e.g. lang

Question 8

what does the hidden curriculum lower?

Answer 8

working class ambitions

Question 9

what does the hidden curriculum lower?

Answer 9

working class ambitions

Question 10

idealogical state apparatus

Answer 10

social institution whose main role is to pass on the dominate ideology of R/C

Question 11

repressive state apparatus

Answer 11

social insitutions whose role it is to enforce the dominant ideology by force or threat of force