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Evaluate the Marxist Perspective on the role of education. Marxist perspectives place stress upon the role the schools play in preparing children for their future working role in terms of both skill and values. The crucial factor is that Marxists see education as a means of exploitation of the population by the ruling class. Bowles and Gintis examine the values, which they claim underlie the subjects taught in schools. They suggest that the prime purpose is to produce a willing, subservient workforce, which will continue to help make profits for the ruling class and not challenge their dominance in society. In Schooling in Capitalist America, they argue two reasons for this. One reason is through the 'hidden curriculum' of schooling and the correspondence, or very close similarity, the between the social relationships at school and at work (long shadow of work). Secondly through the role of the education system in legitimising or...

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