THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF EDUCATION (MARXISM) Flashcards
SECOND DECK IN THE COURSE
WHAT DO MARXISTS BELIEVE IS THE ROLE OF EDUCATION?
To maintain capitalism and reproduce social inequality
WHAT IS THE IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS (ISA)?
An Institution (like education) whose main role is to continue the bourgeoise ideology
WHAT IS THE REPRESSIVE STATE APPARATUS (RSA)?
An Institution (like the police) whose main role is to continue m/c ideology by force
WHAT IS THE CORROSPONDENCE PRINCIPAL?
Ways in which the education system mirrors the world of work
WHAT DOES ALTHUSSER BELIEVE EDUCATION IS FOR (BRIEF)?
1) Reproduction of social inequality
2) Legitimisation of social inequality
WHAT DOES ALTHUSSER MEAN WHEN HE STATES EDUCATION ‘REPRODUCES SOCIAL INEQUALITY’?
- Education engineers w/c failure in order to create an unqualified workforce
- Private education elevates the m/c
- The hidden curriculum deters w/c achievement
WHAT DOES ALTHUSSER MEAN WHEN HE STATES EDUCATION ‘LEGITIMISES SOCIAL INEQUALITY’?
- M/C have more access to cultural and economic capital
- Education encourages students to accept capitalism
WHAT DOES BOWLES AND GINTIS BELIEVE EDUCATION IS FOR (BRIEF)?
1) The Correspondence Principal
2) Myth of Meritocracy
WHAT DOES BOWLES AND GINTIS MEAN WHEN THEY STATE THAT EDUCATION IS A ‘MYTH OF MERITOCRACY’?
Education claims to be meritocratic however discriminates the w/c (through things like labelling and Bernstein’s codes)
WHAT DOES BOWLES AND GINTIS MEAN WHEN THEY STATE EDUCATION CONTINUES THE ‘CORROSPONDANCE PRINCIPAL’?
School mirrors work to prepare students for manual labour
- boredom
- obedience
- Discipline
NAME THREE AO3 POINTS IN REGARDS TO MARXISM/EDUCATION.
1) Neo Marxists: Truancy/anti school subcultures show the hidden curriculum doesn’t work
2) Social Democrats: Marxists exaggerate the effect of education and there are new policies that help the w/c
3) New right: Education had failed everyone, not just the w/c
