ABSTRACT
In their evaluation of the Marxist perspective the authors provide a critique of the theory of society and social change which forms the basis of the Marxist analysis of education. They draw upon the work of Andy Hargreaves and discuss a sustained critique of the idea of resistance in education. The authors also discuss Willis's highly influential Learning to Labour. They examine the claims made by writers such as Johnson that there is a continuity between the oppositional behaviour of school counter-cultures and the resistance of the working class in the nineteenth century to the demands of capitalism. The authors consider the arguments of CCCS concerning 'social democracy' and education by looking at alternative conceptions of society, state and education in the writings of Crosland, Galbraith and the 'pluralists'. They look at the theories of direct reproduction.
