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- Karl Marx never wrote anything directly on education – yet his influence on writers, academics, intellectuals and educators who came after him has been profound.
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Feb 15, 2024 · Marxist Views on Education. Although Marx and Engels wrote little on education, Marxism has educational implications that have been dissected by many. In essence, Marxists believe that education can both reproduce capitalism and have the potential to undermine it.
- The Reproduction of Class Inequality
- The Legitimation of Class Inequality
- Teaching The Skills Future Capitalist Employers Need
- Evaluations of The Traditional Marxist Perspective on Education
- Neo- Marxism: Paul Willis: – Learning to Labour
- Contemporary Research Applied to Marxism
This means that class inequalities are carried from one generation to the next. Middle class parents use their material and cultural capital to ensure their children get into the best schools and the top sets. This means that the wealthier pupils tend to get the best education and then go onto to get middle class jobs. Meanwhile working class child...
Marxists argue that in reality money determines how good an education you get, but people do not realise this because schools spread the ‘myth of meritocracy’ – in school we learn that we all have an equal chance to succeed and that our grades depend on our effort and ability. Thus if we fail, we believe it is our own fault. This legitimates or jus...
Bowles and Gintis suggested that there was a correspondence between values learnt at school and the way in which the workplace operates. The values, they suggested, are taught through the ‘Hidden Curriculum’. The Hidden Curriculum consists of those things that pupils learn through the experience of attending school rather than the main curriculum s...
Positive evaluations
1. There is an overwhelming wealth of evidence that schools do reproduce class inequality because the middle classes do much better in education because the working classes are more likely to suffer from material and cultural deprivation. Meanwhile, the middle classes have more material capital, more cultural capital(Reay) and because the 1988 Education Act benefited them (Ball Bowe and Gewirtz). 2. The existence of private schools is strong supporting evidence for Marxism – the wealthiest 7%...
Negative evaluations
1. Henry Giroux, says the theory is too deterministic. He argues that working class pupils are not entirely molded by the capitalist system, and do not accept everything that they are taught – Paul Willis’ study of the ‘Lads’ also suggests this. 2. There is less evidence that pupils think school is fair – Paul Willis’ Lads new the system was biased towards the middle classes for example, and many young people in deprived areas are very aware that they are getting a poor quality of education c...
Willis’ research involved visiting one school and observing and interviewing 12 working class rebellious boys about their attitude to school during their last 18 months at school and during their first few months at work. Willis argues pupils rebelling are evidence that not all pupils are brainwashed into being passive, subordinate people as a resu...
A range of contemporary research evidence offers broad support for the view that education continues to reproduce social class inequalities, or at the very least fails to prevent it by improving social mobility in England and Wales.
Exploring any (Black) Marxian-Socialist critique of public education in the United States is indeed a complicated and tricky endeavor. First and. foremost, there are many varieties of Marxism. Aside from myriad ideologi-cal differences, there are vast continental, regional, and national differences.
Jan 3, 2013 · Karl Marx never wrote anything directly on education – yet his influence on writers, academics, intellectuals and educators who came after him has been profound. The power of his ideas has changed the way we look at the world.
May 29, 2020 · One of these is education. Now that Karl Marx is back on reading lists as a source of insight into today’s world, we want to know if he makes a useful contribution to debates over our schools and universities. The evidence for Marx’s views on education comes from texts throughout his career.
Jan 9, 2019 · But, most of all, I was alarmed at the lack of reference to the writings of Karl Marx in texts of the Marxist educational writers I studied in the early 1990s. This shortcoming went right back to the classic Schooling in Capitalist America (Bowles and Gintis 1976 ).
Nov 8, 2023 · While Marx did not write on US universities in relation to post-Civil War capitalism, Du Bois forcefully indicted university-based intellectuals for framing the history of the Civil War, abolition, and Reconstruction in ways that undercut their revolutionary potential.
