Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling: Towards a Marxist analysis of education

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Routledge, Apr 28, 2017 - Education - 202 pages

First published in 1980, this book argues that a theory of ideology is essential to a theory of education. It relates developments in the Marxist theory of ideology to the analysis of schooling in a capitalist society.

Beginning with an appraisal of the early twentieth century liberal social theorists, including Weber, Durkheim, Veblen and Mannheim, it demonstrates that the weakness of their approaches arose from a failure to comprehend adequately the nature of capitalism. It then outlines the state of the theory of ideology at the time and applies the concept in an analysis of contemporary schooling, concluding with a discussion of its political implications. The application of the theory of ideology offers important possibilities for a radical socialist strategy on education.

 

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Contents

Introduction
Liberal theory and the crisis in bourgeois society
Education and the classical sociological tradition
a critique
The theory of ideology
Ideology and schooling
What is to be done?
Bibliography
Index

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Bibliographic information

TitleKnowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling: Towards a Marxist analysis of education
Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
AuthorRachel Sharp
PublisherRoutledge, 2017
ISBN1351809636, 9781351809634
Length202 pages
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Education / Aims & Objectives
Education / General
Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
  
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