Marxism

There are three main aim:
1 Education prepares children for the world for work by giving them skills and values they will need.
2 Education justifies inequality. Inequality is a structural in origin because it is fundamental to the economic system.
3 Education passes on rulling class ideolgy that supports capitalsm. A rulling class, if it is to continue in power, must ensure it reproducers itself over time. People have to be sociolised into acceprting the basic ideas of Capitalism. For the rulling class to maintain its economic domination, power and influence, it is vital that the education system reproduce:
a) the basic ideology of Capitalism
b) the economis domination of rulling class over time.
The educational process has appearance of fairness and merit, which means that success and failure can be rationalised as a failure of the individual rather than the system as a whole.

Althusser see education as a part of ideological stat apparatus. It is a tool of capitalism which as belief tha society is fair. And he thinks that education produces a doclie and obedient workforce.

Bowles and Gintis say that there is a close link between school and work, there is a correspondence between pupil experiences of school and adult work. Also pupils are taught to accept hierarchy at scholl, work also has a hierarchy. Pupils are motivated by grades to do boring work, workers are rewarded with pay to do boring work. The school day is broken into a small units , so is the work day. At school and work subservirence is rewarded.
They think that the hidden curriculam prepares people for work.
Willis says that education doesn't turn out an obedient workforce.
Bordieu use concept of culture capital ,to explain how the middle-class get into the top position.