marxism and neo-marxism evaluation of education

Question 1

postmodernists

Answer 1

marxism is out of date
-the correspondence principle no longer exists
-we live in a post-class era

Question 2

feminists

Answer 2

argue that schools reproduce patriarchy rather than capitalism

Question 3

romanticisation

Answer 3

wc often seen sympathetically, and in Willi’s case heoric= rather than often poorly behaved students who can make bad decisions

Question 4

New right Saunders(1996)

Answer 4

claims that middle-class educational success is ‘deserved’ because middle-class children inherit a genetic predisposition to be more intelligent than wc peers

Question 5

functionalist comparison to marxism

Answer 5

-functionalists tend to be positive whilst marxists tend to argue this if for the benefit of capitalism
-e.g Marxists see hidden curriculum as entirely benefitting capitalism while functionalists see it for the benefit of capitalism

Question 6

social democratic criticism
-what is the social democratic perspective associated with

Answer 6

educationalists and politicians who would like to see greater equality
e.g British labour gov of 1960s and 70s introduced + expanded comprehensive schools

Question 7

Halsey, Floyd and Martin(1973) what do they argue?

Answer 7

the comprehensive system + expansio of the higher education sector in 1960s benefitted wc= more. wc people went on to university + entered professional job as a result

Question 8

what do social democratic argue about economic growth

Answer 8

promoting economic growth, education is essential to promoting equality of opportunity in a meritocracy
- belive education is not automatically meritocratic=gov need to intervene to ensure people from all social classes have same chance to fulfil their potential in education system