Roles and function of education” Marxism

Question 1

What is the ISA

Answer 1

Ideological State Apparatus
- A social institution whose main role is to pass on the dominate ruling class ideology

Question 2

What is the RSA

Answer 2

Repressive state apparatus
- A social institution whose role it is to enforce the dominant ideology by force or threat (police)

Question 3

What is the hidden curriculum?

Answer 3

The informal learning process that happen in schools - is a side effect of education that teaches students the norms and values of society

Question 4

Main Marxist idea of education

Answer 4

Maintain capitalism and reproduce social inequality

Question 5

What two things does Althusser say

Answer 5

Reproduction of social inequality
Legitimization of social inequality

Question 6

What is the reproduction of social inequality

Answer 6

Education deliberately engineers w/c failure in. Order to create an unqualified factory workforce

Private education prepares children of the elite for positions of power

Hidden curriculum - shaped to assist the m/c and deter w/c

Question 7

What is legitimization of social inequality

Answer 7

M/c have more access to more cultural and economic capital which puts them at an advantage

Education helps us to blindly accept capitalism through hidden curriculum

Question 8

What does Bowles and Gintis say

Answer 8

Myth of meritocracy
Correspondence principle

Question 9

What is the myth of meritocracy

Answer 9

Education claims to be meritocratic but schools discriminate in favour of m/c - speech codes

Hidden curriculum lowers w/c ambitions

Question 10

What is correspondence principle

Answer 10

School processes mirror the work place in order to prepare for capitalist society
- obedience
- achieved status
- discipline
-deadlines

Question 11

Evaluation

Answer 11

Neo Marxism (Giroux) Reject the view that w/c passively accept their position
Anti school subcultures - hidden curriculum and correspondence principle have failed