neo-marxism

Question 1

what is neo-marxism?

Answer 1

an attempt to provide a more contemporary understanding of class society based on the ideas of Marx and Engels
e.g bowles and Gintis conducted research in 1976

Question 2

Giroux(1984)

Answer 2

he argues that working-class pupils do not passive accept what they are taught
-belives wc pupils actively shape their education and sometimes resist the discipline imposed on them by school

Question 3

paul willis=

Answer 3

neo-marxist

Question 4

Giroux argues schools are sites of?

Answer 4

ideological struggle by different classes and by different ethnic,religious and cultural groups struggling toe ensure education provides the things they wish for

Question 5

giroux acknowledges that capitalists have ?

Answer 5

more power than any other single group but they don’t have all the power

Question 6

neo-marxist conclusions

Answer 6

-hidden curriculum is not always accepted
-education does not always succeed in socialising pupils into dominant values
-it suggests that both functionalism and marxism exaggerate conformity in education -> too deterministic