Main Theories Of Schooling Implied By Marx s Historic...

In the modern capitalist society, social class is the most prominent and common categorization of people based on their income, occupation and education. In Marx’s view, this type of social system requires educated citizens to become either the owner of the means of production or workers that sell the labour to function the society. To this end, school are used as a mechanism to reproduce an efficient and obedient working force and maintain the dominant position of the elites. This essay seek to analyse and criticize the central purpose of schooling implied by Marx’s historic materialism. It is important to investigate the causal factors of inequalities underlie the seemingly fair education structure, so that we can search for ways to reform to achieve human liberation ideals, prevent exacerbate the class division. Karl Marx, is a German political philosopher. Jean (2011) documented that he developed the historic materialism relates social formation to the modes of production. He divide the society into two components, the superstructure and the base structure. The superstructure, contains family, media, politics etc regulates, control and monitor the base structure which includes relation and means of production; the base structure offer life necessities and support the superstructure. School is an institution that is placed at the intermediate position integrated with these social relations. Therefore, to explore the roles of education in this form of society, we need