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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.
Jan 1, 2016 · As such, the dilemma of authority and legitimation which lies at the heart of Marxist theory and practice is, for us, an educational experience born out of what is called the “dialectic of enlightenment.”
- Nigel Tubbs
- Nigel.Tubbs@winchester.ac.uk
While Marx and Engels wrote little on education, the educational implications of Marxism are clear. Education both reproduces capitalism and has the potential to undermine it. With respect to reproduction, it is informative to look at key texts by Althusser and Bowles and Gintis (and the latter’s legacy). As far as challenging capitalism is ...
While Marx and Engels wrote little on education, the educational implications of Marxism are clear. Education both reproduces capitalism and has the potential to undermine it.
Nov 8, 2023 · Drawing on Marxism—while radicalizing it along the lines of an activist-transformative philosophy—this chapter pursues this goal by focusing on this educational conception’s centerpiece, the notion of “learner.”
Viewed in this way Marxism has an educa-tional dilemma at its very core. This comes into view when education is understood not as the accumulation of facts and knowledge – what might be called mere abstract or empirical education – but rather as the experience of the oppositions and contradictions which empirical education generates.
