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A Critique Of Bourdieu And Passeron’S Educational Reform In The Inheritors, Daniel Mccabe
A Critique Of Bourdieu And Passeron’S Educational Reform In The Inheritors, Daniel Mccabe
Akadimia Filosofia
Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s The Inheritors critically examines the French education system in the 1960s. The Inheritors is a compilation of sociological studies on university students in the Arts which the authors use a premises for their education reform citing issues in the traditional system that allow bourgeois students to have an unfair advantage due to their cultured upbringing. The main systemic problem within French education is identified by Bourdieu and Passeron as the charismatic ideology that awards cultural, theoretical knowledge over merit and effort. To resolve the bias within the traditional French education system, a revolutionary new education …