Theory of Education Assignment
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Running head: THEORY OF EDUCATION THEORY OF EDUCATIONName of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
1THEORY OF EDUCATION 4. I agree with the Marxists who claim that the school is a contested site betweenthose who have power and those who do not have. In our societal structure, power comeswith money. However, the power also represents the socio-economic condition of a man. Theperson, who has better socio-economic condition, avails more power in the societal structure.According to Marx, school is the capitalist agency that caters organized or institutionalizededucation that is the part of the superstructure (Fine, 2016). The school is that institution thatis controlled by the economic base, which is in the hand of the capitalists. However, theperson with higher socio-economic condition controls the school as an establishment anddetermines the educational structure. In this societal structure, schools are the means toconvey the ideology and purpose, philosophy and goal, instruction and curriculum. Thepower holders in the society, that is those who is in the much better socio-economiccondition, transmits officially approved “knowledge” which is defined as the standards bythem. However, in this context, the schools are the sites of the power holders (Callinicos,2012). For example, my school represents an educational structure that would allow studentswith well-economic condition. It is a wealthy school and all the students are therepresentative of the upper-economic class. 5. I agree with Marxists who claim that the capitalist economic system createsconsumer desires through the manipulation of illusions in marketing. The capitalists who arethe owner of the modes and means of the production dominate capitalist economic system.The capitalist economic system creates desire in the heart of the consumers who buy thecommodities (Lenski, 2013). Under capitalism, a commodity is that material, which fulfilsthe human needs. I agree with the Marxist point of view that the advertising stimulates theconsumer’s desires through the method of manipulation. The advertising and marketing is akind of policy that is applied by the capitalist economics to stimulate the consumer’s desire
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