ABSTRACT
The processes of reproduction have a history, a history that needs to be uncovered if we are to know the possibilities of action today. The curricular forms can have a profound impact on students as well since their organization is ideally suited to reproduce an ideology of possessive individualism. Television constantly reproduces hegemonic ideologies and attempts to resolve ideological tensions in imaginative ways by selectively re-absorbing aspects of alternative or oppositional ideologies. Mass culture registers transformations in dominant ideologies, ideologies which are never static, abstract entities. It signifies resistances to and departures from hegemonic meanings and practices by focusing on the cultural apparatus outside of formal school settings, a number of significant ways in which cultural and economic reproduction occurs can be illuminated. Education is a state apparatus that is both the result of social and economic contradictions and the source of new contradictions at one and the same time.
