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Three key thinkers:

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  • Louis Althusser (1971)
  • Samuel Bowles and Herbert Binits (1976)
  • Paul Williams (1997) neo-Marxist.
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Louis Althusser (1971):

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  1. Education reproduces class inequality.
    - Education teachers young people that capitalism is both natural and normal, despite its inherited inequalities and injustice.
  2. Education legitimates class inequality.
    - By selecting and grading pupils for unequal positions in society, school make inequality seem fair and legitimate.
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Key Study: Bowels and Gintis:

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  • Argued that education is controlled by capitalists and serves this interests. The education system is designed to create an obedient workforce, that will accept inequality and equal.
  • There are close parallels between schooling and wok in capitalist society. Correspondence Principle.
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Bowels and Gintis: The hidden curriculum:

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Bowels and Gintis argue that the corresponded principle operates through the hidden curriculum.

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Features of the hidden curriculum include:

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  • Hierarchy,
  • Competition,
  • Obedience,
  • Hard work,
  • Discipline,
  • School routine.
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Paul Willis (1977):

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  • Disagree with Bowels and Gintis that education is a straightforward process of indoctrination into the ‘ myth of meritocracy’.
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Paul Willis: Learning of Labour:

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  • Researcher, found that 12 working class kids developed a counter school culture because they opposed the value of school, the hidden curriculum and teachers.
  • They saw no value in academic work or qualifications.
  • These lads looked forward to working in a car factory, where there’s no qualifications required.
  • They saw through the ideology of capitalism and their behaviour reinforced class inequality.
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Criticisms to Paul Willis research:

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  • A small sample of 12. Unrepresentative and ungeneralizable.
  • Other studies show that working class pupils may oppose some aspects of schooling while being accepting of others.
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Contemporary Marxist: Freire (1996):

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  • Schools are repressive institutions, where learners are conditioned to accept oppressive relations of domination and subordination.
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AO3: Evaluation:

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