Education and the School System: Ideological State Apparatus and Its Use in Literature
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Research in English & Education - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Plato’s text The Republic, a kind of treatise regarding many political and social concerns goes on about how one can produce a kind of proper education among children with the means of prose and poetry, be it fiction or otherwise and music as well. His major concern is with the Greek scenario wherein the purpose of education is to produce a group of young militia who are instilled with qualities of courage, self-control, honesty, excellence of character and so on. Althusser suggests that the “the ideological State apparatus which has been installed in the dominant position in mature capitalist social formations as a result of violent political and ideological class struggle against the old dominant ideological State apparatus , is the educational ideological apparatus.”. He further says that the School has the capacity to drill into the child’s brain a “certain amount of ‘know-how’ wrapped in the ruling ideology”. Many educational philosophers have argued that education was never a neutral enterprise and it almost always involves a political act whether it is a conscious one or an unconscious one on the part of the teacher/ educator. The levels at which the school system and education varies in spreading its desired ideologies works through various routes. These include the curriculum and the subjects taught in the school, the punishments and the forms of disciplining, examinations and forms of assessment, ranking and grading system and systems of inclusion and exclusion. This paper tries to show the tools used by a School system which work in the making of an Ideological state apparatus; and the Education system as an ideological State apparatus to develop the dominant ideologies of caste, religion and language in society- with reference to two texts Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan (1944) and Marali Mannige by K. Shivarama Karanth (1941).
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Ankita Gupta
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