Role & Function of Education- Marxism Flashcards
1
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Perspective
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Education is based upon class division & exploitation
2
Q
education is used to
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keep control over the proliteriat
3
Q
Althusser
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The State Apparatus
-Marxists see the state as the main way the bourgeoisie maintain power
4
Q
Repressive state apparatus
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Army, police, prisons
-Control over the body
5
Q
Ideological state apparatus
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religion ,media, education
-control over the mind
6
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Education 2main functions
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Reproducing class-inequality
Legitimising class-inequality
7
Q
Bowles & Gintis
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Correspondence Principle
8
Q
Bowles & Gintis Authored
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“Schooling in Capitalist America” (1976)
studied 237 schools
9
Q
Correspondence Principle
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Schools punished traits such as
-creativity, independence
Rewarded
-Obedience
10
Q
Meritocracy
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IS A MYTH
11
Q
Paul Willis
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Learning to Labour
12
Q
Neo-Marxist
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Paul Willis
- studied 12 working class boys
- tried to resist their subordinate position
